Using NewsML-G2

Quick Start with NewsML-G2

• Comprehensive Implementation Guidelines cover the basics of major media types text, pictures and video plus packages of news, further many and more complex use cases.
• A guideline for mapping metadata between NewsML-G2 and the IPTC Photo Metadata standard – back and forth.

More information on the latest Catalog file covering IPTC’s controlled vocabularies for NewsML-G2 can be found on this page

Many controlled vocabularies which may be used with NewsML-G2 are available on the IPTC Controlled Vocabulary Server.

Specification documents

• HTML specification document (for the previous version 2.33)
• NewsML-G2 Release including XML Schema for the current version 2.34

These specification documents of all recent versions are available in the NewsML-G2 section of the IPTC Developer site.

Support

The IPTC Developer Site provides technical information about NewsML-G2.

The NewsML-G2 Users Forum is used to share experiences, raise questions and recommend and discuss changes to the NewsML-G2 standard. It also connects publishers who use NewsML-G2 and vendors who create tools that process NewsML-G2 documents.