International Press Telecommunications Council
The International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) is the world association of news agencies and newspapers for the technical standardization of news exchange.
The organization was originally founded in London in 1965 to protect the interests of the press and news agencies in the telecommunications sector .
Today it includes all of the major news agencies, some national newspaper publishing associations, and a number of software manufacturers.
The self-developed norms (standards):
- IPTC 7901 : Standard for exchanging texts, is still primarily used today by agencies in Europe, was developed in 1979 .
- Together with the Newspaper Association of America (NAA), the so-called IPTC-IIM standard - the "Information Interchange Model" (IIM) - was developed around 1991 . Basically suitable for all types of media, it became widely known primarily for its use in Adobe's Photoshop.
- NITF : First standard format of the IPTC that was based on XML . It is mainly used for exchanging texts.
- NewsML : Standard format based on XML for the exchange of multimedia packages. Such a package can contain texts, images, graphics, etc.
- G2 standards : A family of formats based on XML for both multimedia messages and data about events and for terms, i. H. for sharing knowledge. The NewsML-G2 , EventsML-G2 and SportsML-G2 standards belong to this family .
- Photo metadata : Based on the list of fields selected for Adobe Photoshop from the IPTC IIM standard , two metadata schemes were developed: IPTC core and IPTC extension. These are technically based on the XMP standard for storing metadata.
- NewsCodes: Taxonomies for categorizing media content = a binding collection of terms that prevents topics with similar but not identical terms from being tagged . The keywording catalog , IPTC Thesaurus , is available in several languages.