Autumn 2013 update on the IPTC's Semantic Web Working Party, with a focus on rNews. In this meeting, we added support for storylines in rNews 1.2

1. IPTC Semantic Web Working Group
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Stuart Myles * Associated Press * 21st October 2013

2. IPTC SemWeb Working Group
• Making use of Semantic Web technologies for news
– Leverage technologies developed by others
• The work falls into two main areas:
– Models
• Determine what aspects of news to represent
– Formats
• The details of how to represent the news
• Using RDFa, microdata, JSON, Linked Data …
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3. rNews
Embeddable news metadata
• One data model
• Suggested implementations
– RDFa
– HTML5 Microdata
http://dev.iptc.org/rNews
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4. rNews 1.2
Add Storyline as a Class to rNews as a subClass of
rnews:Concept
http://dev.iptc.org/rNews-12-CR-1003-add-storyline
Storyline metadata is often expressed via webpages
Adding it to rNews will make it machine readable
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5. Storylines
Topic
StorylineComponent
News Storyline Model (simplified)
Attribution
subClassOf
topic
follows
subClassOf
contains
attributedTo
Event
Storyline
hasSlot
StorylineSlot
hasDevelopment
index
(ordinal)
hasUpdate
hasChapter
comment
title
synopsis
timeStamp
http://www.slideshare.net/logomachy/iptc-presentation-about-the-storylines-data-model
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/storyline/2013-05-01.html
http://www.slideshare.net/jeremytarling/the-storyline-ontology
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6. Storylines
"The News Storyline Ontology is a generic model for describing and
organising the stories news organisations tell. The ontology is
intended to be flexible to support any given news or media
publisher's approach to handling news stories. At the heart of the
ontology, is the concept of Storyline. As a nuance of the English
language the word 'story' has multiple meanings. In news
organisations, a story can be an individual piece of content, such as
an article or news report. It can also be the editorial view on events
occurring in the world."
From BBC's Storyline ontology
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/storyline/2013-05-01.html
For more, see Robin Pembrooke's Storyline blog post
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/posts/Storyline
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7. Storylines in rNews
• rnews:Storyline properties
– rnews:description
– rnews:name
– rnews:slug
• Add rnews:slug (a new property) to rnews:NewsItem
• We have also discussed this change with Schema.org
http://dev.iptc.org/rNews-12-CR-1003-add-storyline
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8. rNews
MOTION – Standards Committee
MOTION (to the Standards Committee):
To approve rNews version 1.2
as specified by
rNews_1.2_CR-1003-add-storyline.pdf
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9. W3C semnews Community Group
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10. Date and Place of Next Meeting?
Istanbul March, 2014
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Thanks and Goodbye!
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