Just to connect my response and Evan's, I should have mentioned that NewsML is an IPTC effort. Evan--is rNews building on NewsML terminology or starting from scratch? Bob On 11/14/2010 7:07 AM, Sandhaus, Evan wrote: > Alex, Step, et al, > > Thanks Alex for mentioning the ISWC announcement. > > At ISWC I announced that the NYT is collaborating with the > International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) to develop a > framework for annotating news using RDFa. This framework, tentatively > called rNews, will consist of both a news vocabulary and suggested > “best practices” for applying this vocabulary. In the announcement I > invited the larger Semantic Web community to collaborate with the IPTC > in developing this framework. In the next week, we will stand up a > collaboration site where a draft proposal will be posted and > discussed. Provided that everything proceeds as is hoped, the IPTC > will vote on the recommendation at their apring meeting in March 2011. > > Once the collaboration site is online, I will post a note and the link > to this list. > > Thanks in advance for working with us on this! > > All the best, > > Evan > -- > Evan Sandhaus > Lead Architect, Semantic Platforms > The New York Times Company > @kansandhaus
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