XML Europe 2001 logo21-25 May 2001
Internationales Congress Centrum (ICC)
Berlin, Germany
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PRISM and NewsML

Daniel Rivers-Moore <daniel.rivers-moore@rivcom.com>
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ABSTRACT

The news and magazine publishing industries have seen some important new standards emerge over the past year.

The IPTC (International Press Telecommunications Council) continues to enhance its NITF (News Industry Text Format) standard for XML markup of textual news stories, and has developed a major new standard known as NewsML, which handles the management and delivery of news items and collections of news items in all media, and their associated metadata. NewsML version 1.0 was approved in October 2000.

In addition, IDEAlliance, the research division of the GCA (Graphic Communications Association) has been hosting the PRISM initiative. PRISM (Publishing Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata) focuses on the needs of the magazine publishing industry and aims to provide an interoperable framework for the management of metadata throughout the lifecycle of a publishable story, picture or other media object. The PRISM specification is nearing completion as this conference programme goes to press.

This talk will focus on NewsML and PRISM, and will show how these two complementary standards relate to one another. It will clarify the boundaries between the two, bringing out both the overlaps and the differences, and will recommend approaches to making effective use of the two standards, either separately or in conjunction with one another.

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Biography

Daniel Rivers-Moore
Director of New Technologies
RivCom
Swindon
Wiltshire
United Kingdom
Email: daniel.rivers-moore@rivcom.com

Daniel Rivers-Moore - Daniel Rivers-Moore is Director of New Technologies at RivCom, a consultancy and services company specializing in helping businesses adopt XML technologies to meet their information management and distribution needs. He has a decade of experience helping organizations gain business benefit from the adoption of standards-based publishing solutions and been actively involved in the development of the XML family of standards for many years, having been a member of the original XML Special Interest Group, joint project leader of the STEP/SGML harmonisation initiative under ISO, software development lead in the recently completed European XML/EDI Pilot Project. Daniel is a Founder Member of TopicMaps.org and a member of the XML Topic Maps Authoring Group. He is the editor of the NewsML standard and chair of the provisional steering group of KnoW (Knowledge on the Web), a collaborative initiative aimed at fostering the development of Web technologies for the sharing and interchange of knowledge.