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This is a consortium of the world's major news agencies, and publishers.  The organization develops and maintains technical standards for the publishing industry in relation to the telecom industry.  For the answering services and call centers out there, the company merely serves as training for the telecom industry. Our reps at The Successful Office Group scour the internet for telecom companies and the information on their site is fantastic.

Latest News Release :

IPTC’s NewsCodes taxonomies for news will become more powerful in 2007

MADRID, Spain – 25 October 2006 - A major expansion of the popular IPTC NewsCodes will be studied by members of the International Press Telecommunications Council, the IPTC has announced.

Most of the world’s news agencies and newspapers use IPTC NewsCodes, which are well-defined sets of metadata that describe news stories, photos and other media. NewsCodes have also been adopted by librarians, archivists and others who must categorize or describe electronic media -- even if not news related.  To help both news and non-news users, IPTC delegates from The Associated Press, BBC and The Press Association will study new ways to express complex ideas about categorization and concepts.

The announcement was made at the IPTC's regular autumn meeting, held here in October.
In other business, delegates approved maintenance upgrades of the News Industry Text Format, also known as NITF, and of SportsML. Using standard XML tagging, NITF is an efficient markup language for general news. SportsML focuses on sports data -- entries, teams, results, standings and other important information. Both standards are in wide use globally.

Work continues on IPTC's next-generation standards, known as the IPTC G2 Family, moving toward a release in 2007. The G2 Family will allow users a choice of staying with IPTC's current XML-based standards or moving to the new XML-based G2 Family. This yields unprecedented flexibility, allowing current software development efforts to be easily applied to future IPTC standards.

The next regular meeting of the IPTC will be held in Cairo in March 2007. The Annual General Meeting for 2007 will be held in Tokyo in May.

The IPTC, based in Windsor, England, is a consortium of the world's major news agencies, news publishers and news industry vendors. It develops and maintains technical standards that are used by virtually every major news organization in the world.

More information may be had from the IPTC at office@iptc.org .