Re: New Member: The Washington Post

Brendan Quinn responded positively! He asked if anybody would be available
to speak at the IPTC Spring Meeting in Estonia. Laurent, maybe? Ivan?
Here's what he said:

Bill do you think anyone would be available to speak about it at our
> Tallinn meeting? That could be a good way to drum up some interest…?


I've always thought that there was an awful lot of overlap in the interests
of IPTC members and Publishing@W3C and W3C in general. They were active in
the development of the Annotations spec back in the day; their RightsML was
a major contributor to ODRL; their Photo Metadata standard is fundamental
in publishing (it's embedded in all Adobe products, among many other
things, which means almost all publishers use it without knowing it--every
time they use Illustrator or Photoshop they're using it, and Google uses it
to now associate rights and credit information with Google Images) and
their Video Metadata Hub now aligns with it. And now with LPF and the
publication manifest having got their interest, maybe that could finally
get us some non-book Web Publication action. . . .

--Bill


On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 5:31 PM Bill Kasdorf <kasdorf.bill@gmail.com> wrote:

> That's fantastic news! I recently made a renewed pitch to IPTC, the news
> technology organization, when I saw a Slack post that Brendan Quinn, the
> IPTC Managing Director, put out to their membership about LPF and
> pub-manifest, linking to those specs and citing the Publishing WG and
> Laurent specifically. (Laurent used to be an IPTC member and he knows them
> well.) I pointed out that some of their members (New York Times, BBC,
> Agence France-Presse, Bloomberg, Thomson-Reuters, you name it--but not the
> Post, and they've always wanted the Post to join IPTC!) might want to get
> involved in the W3C since those things may be really relevant to them. I
> will post about the Post! (I'm still a member of IPTC, though not as active
> as I used to be.)--Bill
>
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 5:02 PM Karen Myers <karen@w3.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> A quick note to let you know that The Washington Post has joined W3C as
>> new members and one of their interests is Publishing. I will be scheduling
>> their new member/new AC Rep on-boarding call soon but wanted to let all of
>> you know.
>>
>> Karen
>>
>
>
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