What is the News Standards Summit?

NewsML, NITF, PRISM, DISC, RSS, Atom, ICE, XMP, XHTML, RDF, OWL, Semantic Technologies... As interest builds for standardizing news dissemination, concern also grows that specifications are being developed in isolation. How do they fit? Where will they converge? How can developers and users collaborate to identify gaps and overlaps and ensure their systems will be able to interoperate now and in the future?

The news community began to find the answers in a one-day News Standards Summit that was held on 8 December 2003, in conjunction with the IDEAlliance XML 2003 USA Conference. The second News Standards Summit  took place on 24 May 2005, in conjunction with the IDEAlliance Xtech Conference in Amsterdam.

The News Standards Summit brings together major players--experts on news metadata standards as well as commercial news providers, users, and aggregators. Together, they will analyze the current state and future expectations for news and publishing XML and metadata efforts from both the content and processing model perspectives. The goal is to increase understanding and to drive practical, productive convergence. 

Send us your ideas for the next News Summit Program and join an online conversation about standards for news at nss-discuss@yahoogrouups.com.