Post-Summit
News
News
industry experts meet to advance standards
- Julien Dossier, Campus XML.org
What was 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 that
was held Monday, 8 December 2003, in conjunction
with the IDEAlliance XML 2003 Conference in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, USA.
The News Standards Summit
brought together major players--experts on news
metadata standards as well as commercial news
providers, users, and aggregators. Together, they
began to analyze the current state and future
expectations for news and publishing XML efforts
from both the content and processing model perspectives.
Our goal--to increase understanding and drive
practical, productive convergence.
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Misha Wolf from Reuters, served as the moderator
for the morning session of the News Standards
Summit. The morning program was designed to
provide attendees with an overview of major
standards and specifications that apply to
the distribution of news content. |
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featured presentations from the key news standards
efforts balanced by a requirements overview
from a panel of international users. The Keynote
for the event was provided by Chet Ensign,
of LexisNexis. |
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Gunar Penikis, Product Manager, Creative
Professional Products, Adobe Systems Inc.
provided an overview of the Adobe strategy
to embed metadata using Adobe products from
InDesign to Photoshop. |
The day concluded with
an open discussion session where productive ideas
for ongoing dialog were discussed. You can participate
in ongoing discussions about standards for the
news industry by clicking on Discuss.
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