Annual General Meeting 2015
26 – 27 October, London (UK)
Venue of the Annual General Meeting (26 – 27 Oct):
etc.venues Marble Arch
86 Edgeware Road (Garfield House)
London, W2 2EA, United Kingdom
Web: follow this link
Schedule
Monday, 26 October
- 09:00 opening by the Chair
- NewsML-G2 Working Group
- XML Schema design issue: making all elements representing a property global
- NewsML-G2 2.22 draft
- Newsroom Summit presentation
- Coffee Break
- Semantic Exchange Working Group
- News standards – recap
- Lunch Break
- wrap-ups of the work done by the Photo Metadata, ninjs and NewsCodes working groups.
- Video Metadata Working Group: current status of Draft#3
- JSON format for IPTC’s Controlled Vocabularies
- Coffee Break
- Sport Content Working Party
- SportsML 3.0
- sportsJS JSON Schema
- Standards Committee
- ~ 18:00 meeting day closed
Tuesday, 27 October
- 09:00 Formal Annual General Meeting (AGM), with elections, votes and more
- Coffee Break
- 11:00 – 17:00 News about News Technology – presentations by IPTC members and guests showing exciting technology associated with news
- 11:05 “A New Approach to Ubiquitous News Distribution and Recommendations” – by Dr. Peng Yang, Associate Professor (Southeast University, China)
- 11:35 Easy to use reporter tools, by Johan Lindgren (TT, Sweden)
- 12:15 Lunch Break
- 13:30 RightsML Python engine, by Stuart Myles (AP, USA)
- 14:00 “Cross-Lingual Global Media Monitoring”, by Marko Grobelnik & Gregor Leban (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)
- 14:45 “Newsgathering and Verification Strategy”, by Evi Varsou (ATC, Greece)
- 15:15 Coffee Break
- 15:40 dynamic sports data, including SportsML, by BBC (UK)
- 16:30 The Select tool for NewsML-G2-based routing, by Robert Schmidt-Nia (dpa, Germany)
- 16:50 Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP), by Luca Forlin (Google, UK)
- 17:35 250 Million and Counting: Implementing a Massive Photo DAM by Scott Calder (Mainstream Data, USA)
- 18:05 Closing of the AGM
Wednesday, 28 October: be aware of the 50th anniversary event “News at a Crossroad”