Programme  Details

Chaired by Misha Wolf, Standards Manager, Reuters; IPTC News Metadata Framework WG Chair

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Text But Were Afraid to Ask:  Dr Miles Whitehead, Senior Technologist, Reuters

This keynote talk will gallop through the following subjects: Summarisation, Fact extraction, Relevance ranking, Provenance research, Plagiarism detection, Accuracy of quotes, Entity recognition, Categorisation, Text-to-speech, and Journalists' behaviour.

Hubertus Koehler, Chief Technical Officer, dpa-infocom GmbH

MINDS (Mobile Information and News Data Services for 3G) is a project funded by the EU and aims at optimizing processes in the value chains of mobile services. Within the project, a big gap in the usage of metadata not only between content providers and mobile network operators but also among news agencies has been identified as one of the major obstacles for successful advanced mobile services. Thus MINDS aims at identifying, establishing and maintaining a common set of metadata, to enhance the quality of mobile services. This common set shall be based on existing standards, will be supported by its member agencies and takes into account the requirements of all participants in the value chain of mobile
services.

Business Wire:  Jayson Lorenzen, Software Developer and Dean Large, Sr. Software Architect, Business Wire; IPTC NewsML 1 Maintenance WP Chair

We will use "Business Wire's Profile of NewsML" to demonstrate how we integrated the flexibility of NewsML with our structured delivery of news release documents. This documentation helps consumers of Business Wire's NewsML documents to quickly and easily process the news feed.

Austria Press Agency (APA) - Collecting Data in Standardized Formats for Austria's Largest Database Host:  Manfred Mitterholzer, Manager Research & Development and  Rudolf Horvath, Technical Director APA,  Managing Director,  APA-IT Informations Technologie GmbH

With currently over 50 million documents, the APA group operates the largest database host in Austria. Over 250 multimedia sources continuously updated in real time are offered. They include all Austrian daily newspapers, all substantial Austrian weekly and monthly magazines, and a large number of specialist press publications. It is also possible to carry out full text research into the APA general news service as far back as 1955, the OTS original text service, and many international agencies. The offer also includes the  APA picture database and major German daily and weekly newspapers.

For collecting all these information in the daily operation standards have become indispensable. In addition a short overview of the next generation fulltext-retrieval system APA-IT PowerSearch with will be given.

PubSub: Bob Wyman, CTO, PubSub

PubSub works with all the flavors of RSS and Atom as well as the NewsML and NITF formats that are used for press releases. Currently, they monitor over 8.5 million blogs, 50 newsgroups, press releases from the major US release distributors, all US SEC Edgar Financial filings, as well as earthquake notifications from around the world. They will show how they process these different formats and adapt them to users’ needs.

Reuters: Dave Compton, Technical Specialist, News & Media, Reuters

Learn how Reuters uses NewsML for production, rendering and delivery of news in this real-world case study.

Agence France Presse (AFP):  Laurent Le Meur, Technical Manager of Multimedia Development, AFP

After an overview of the different XML languages used by AFP, this case study will demonstrate the use of NewsML/NITF for the syndication of illustrated articles on the new AFP eCommerce platform, called Magazine Forum.