What is the News Standards Summit?

NewsML, NITF, PRISM, RSS, Atom, ICE, XMP, XHTML... 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 2003 that was held Monday, 8 December 2003, in conjunction with the IDEAlliance XML 2003 USA Conference. This group will reconvene at the IDEAlliance XTech 2005 Conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands on May 23, 2005 to assess advancements in news standards and discuss new points of convergence.

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.