Re: ANN: IPTC releases first draft of the rNews standard for embedding metadata in online news

Hi Michael,

On 6 Apr 2011, at 03:48, Michael F Uschold wrote:
> I had a look at the ontology and discovered that a) it does not load into Protégé 4.1.  and b)    An organization and a location and a person are all tags.  This seems likely to cause semantic problems if you want to interoperate with any other data out there.
> For example, someone is likely to say http://iptc.org/std/rNews/2011-02-02#Organization is owl:sameAs the URI for organization from say DBpedia or the CIA World Fact Book.  Now all these are going to be inferred to be of type http://iptc.org/std/rNews/2011-02-02#Tag.   This will give an inconsistent ontology when someone does the sensible things and says a location and an person are disjoint from tags.
> 
> A tag is an informational indexing thing. An organization is a legal entity, a location is something else again. 

And I thought a tag is a small, flat, metal thing on a dog collar…

rnews:Tag doesn't have to be the same as michael:Tag. That's why we name things with URIs.

If it is useful *for some application* to declare rnews:Organization owl:equivalentClass ex:Organization in their own local application-specific ontology mapping, then ex:Organization and rnews:Tag are not disjoint *in that mapping*. That's fine. All mappings are wrong, but some are useful.

The Web will never be globally consistent and you know that.

Best,
Richard



> 
> Michael 
> 
> 
> <!-- http://iptc.org/std/rNews/2011-02-02#Organization
>  -->
> 
>     <owl:Class rdf:about="#Organization">
>         <rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="#Party"/>
>     </owl:Class>
>     
> 
> 
>     <!-- 
> http://iptc.org/std/rNews/2011-02-02#Party
>  -->
> 
>     <owl:Class rdf:about="#Party">
>         <rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="#Tag"/>
>     </owl:Class>
>     
> 
> semantic-web@w3.org
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Raphaël Troncy <raphael.troncy@eurecom.fr>
> Date: 2011/4/5
> Subject: ANN: IPTC releases first draft of the rNews standard for embedding metadata in online news
> To: Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
> 
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> Short Story:
> ------------
>  - IPTC has released today the rNews standard draft, see http://dev.iptc.org/rNews
>  - rNews aims at marking news using RDFa. The standard will be compliant with NewsMLG2, IPTC’s XML format for multimedia news packages
>  - IPTC considers incorporating hNews into its set of standards
>  - rNews will be machine readable, an OWL/RDF version of the vocabulary is being cooked
> 
> IPTC is requesting _NOW_ feedback from the community, via its dedicated forum, http://dev.iptc.org/Forum-1. The IPTC will consider any feedback posted until 30 April 2011 as input to the final standardization process.
> 
> Long Story:
> -----------
> Publishers large and small struggle to make sure that search engines and social media sites find their stories and refer to them appropriately.
> 
> They want to provide highly targeted adverts while dealing with users who are opposed to the privacy implication of sharing the personal data necessary to accomplish that.
> 
> How can they build web pages with news stories where the components of the story are machine-readable, as well as human readable? The rich content metadata available in a publisher’s internal CMS is often lost, or re-engineered in an attempt to optimise search results.
> 
> The IPTC has taken a step to solving this problem with the release of the first draft of the rNews standard in 5 April 2011.
> 
> The IPTC aims to revamp the process for marking up online news articles so that search engines and social networking sites can more successfully pull relevant pieces of data from them. IPTC seeks to develop rNews, a recently proposed practice for marking news using RDFa, which allows HTML authors to tag webpage content with indicators that browsers and tools can interpret. The standards will be compliant with NewsMLG2, IPTC’s XML format for multimedia news packages.
> 
> IPTC’s Semantic Web Working Group is leading the charge to craft these standards. The group is mapping out the specifications essential to rNews for IPTC, and will offer examples of the standards in use, best practices for implementation, and online tools to ease the transition to the new standards. This work is set to conclude in the summer of 2011, and will better enable search engines to cull NewsML-G2 data from the Internet, ready for Semantic Web and Linked Data mining technologies.
> 
> Details of rNews are available at http://dev.iptc.org/rNews.
> 
> More importantly, what you think about it can be recorded on the public rNews forum (http://dev.iptc.org/Forum-1) . The IPTC will consider any feedback posted until 30 April 2011 as input to the final standardization process.
> 
> The IPTC considers incorporating hNews, the existing microformat for the semantic markup of news content, into its set of standards.
> At its most basic level, both hNews and rNews are about expressing news metadata in HTML.
> hNews is a microformat using HTML markup conventions, whereas rNews is a method to record RDF assertions (triples) within HTML, but keeps vocabularies and expression mechanism separate.
> 
> Best regards.
> 
>  Raphaël Troncy
>  on behalf of the IPTC SemWeb working group
> 
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> Raphaël Troncy
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> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Michael Uschold, PhD
>    Senior Ontology Consultant, Semantic Arts
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