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rNews Forum (comments, discussions)
rNews: Why rNews?
Introduction To RDF
Introduction To RDFa
rNews 1.0: Introduction to rNews
rNews 1.0: Class Attributes in rNews
rNews 1.0: The Concept Class
rNews 1.0: The Place Class
rNews 1.0: The GeoCoordinates Class
rNews 1.0: The Person Class
rNews 1.0: The Organization Class
rNews 1.0: The NewsItem Class
rNews 1.0: The Article Class
rNews 1.0: The Audio / Image / Video Object Classes
rNews 1.0: The UserComments Class
rNews 1.0: Implementation Guide Introduction
rNews 1.0: Quick Reference
rNews ToDo List
The relation of rNews to other existing standards
rNews in the news
rNews Changes from 0.1 to 0.5
rNews 0.1 Overview
rNews 0.5 Overview

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- rNews 1.0: Implementation Guide Introduction
- rNews 1.0: Quick Reference
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- The relation of rNews to other existing standards
- rNews in the news
- rNews Changes from 0.1 to 0.5
- rNews 0.1 Overview
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rNews

This section is about the production version 1.0 of rNews.

The rNews 1.0 version has been approved by the IPTC on 7 October 2011.

rNews: embedding metadata in online news

rNews is an approved standard for using semantic markup to annotate news-specific metadata in HTML documents. rNews has been developed by the IPTC, a consortium of the world's major news agencies, news publishers and news industry vendors. After a couple of months of development rNews is at production level now, version 1.0 was approved in October 2011.
The IPTC welcomes feedback on how to improve the standard in the rNews Forum.

Background

Every web page is written in the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). HTML provides web authors with the ability to specify the exact layout and appearance of web documents. For example, a news publisher might use HTML to specify that, on an article page, the region containing the headline be displayed in a 16-point bold typeface. This styling information makes it easy for human readers to identify this region as an article's headline.

Unfortunately, a machine looking for the headline in an HTML document has only display information to guide its search. As styling is inconsistent across publisher sites and since multiple regions on a page may use the same style, it is very difficult for a machine to reliably discover an article's headline through style alone. News publishers can solve this problem through semantic markup. Semantic markup allows publishers to attach specific meanings to various regions of an article page. One such semantic markup standard is called RDFa. RDFa is a framework for embedding semantic markup into HTML documents, but to apply RDFa to a specific domain it is necessary to develop terminology and data models specific to that domain. Another markup standard is called HTML5 Microdata. Microdata is another framework for embedding semantic mrkup into HTML document, it is adopted by schema.org as the preferred syntax.

rNews as standard

rNews specifies the terminology and data model required to embed news specific metadata into HTML documents

Learn rNews 1.0

To help you learn more about the rNews standard we have prepared a number of documents. We recommend that individuals with limited knowledge of RDF and RDFa start at the very beginning and read through the documents in sequence. For those familiar with these technologies, we recommend that you start with the document entitled "Why rNews".

Lesson	Level
Why rNews	Beginner
Introduction to RDF	Beginner
Introduction to RDFa	Beginner
Introduction to rNews	Intermediate
rNews: Class Attributes in rNews	Intermediate
rNews: The Concept Class	Intermediate
rNews: The Geo Coordinates Class	Intermediate
rNews: The Place Class	Intermediate
rNews: The Postal Address Class	Intermediate
rNews: The Person Class	Intermediate
rNews: The Organization Class	Intermediate
rNews: The NewsItem Class	Intermediate
rNews: The Article Class	Intermediate
rNews: The Audio / Image / Video Object Classes	Intermediate
rNews: The UserComment Class	Intermediate
rNews: Implementation Guide Introduction (with subpages for RDFa and HTML5 Microdata syntax)	Advanced
rNews: Quick Reference	Advanced

Additional Documentation

Relation of rNews to other standards
OWL Ontology for rNews: the third draft is available for review, both in Turtle and RDF/XML.
"7 ideas for rNews" - presentation by Stuart Myles, 21 April 2011, Lotico New York Semantic Web Meetup
"The State of rNews — One Year after its Release" - presentation by Stuart Myles, Evan Sandhaus and Andreas Gebhard, 5 June 2012, Semantic Technology & Business Conference San Francisco

Examples

4 press releases, in NewsML1.2, XHTML/rNews using RDFa and Microdata & Turtle
from Business Wire - as ZIP - version 1.0.

IPTC rNews 1.0 License

IPTC rNews 1.0 is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license - see the full license agreement at creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/. By obtaining, using and/or copying rNews 1.0 documents, you (the licensee) agree that you have read, understood, and will comply with the terms and conditions of the license.

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