IDEAlliance Hosts
Second International News Standards Summit
Leaders in News Standards
Development and Implementations to Meet in Amsterdam
Alexandria, Va.
- March 28, 2005 - IDEAlliance, a
leading trade association dedicated to fostering XML and other information
technology standards, today announced the second international News
Standards Summit to be held on May 24, 2005 in conjunction with the IDEAlliance
XTech 2005 Conference http://www.xtech.org at
the Amsterdam RAI Centre Netherlands. The Summit is a collaborative
effort of organizations committed to open
standards development. Sponsors include G-SAM (http://www.g-sam.org/),
IDEAlliance (http://www.idealliance.org/), IFRA (http://www.ifra.com/), and IPTC (http://www.iptc.org/).
The News
Standards Summit will bring together major players--experts on news
metadata standards as well as commercial news providers, users, and aggregators.
As interest builds for standardizing news
dissemination, concern also grows that specifications are
being developed in isolation. How can the standards fit together? Where/how will standards
converge? How can the industry collaborate to identify gaps and
overlaps and ensure their systems will be able to interoperate now and in
the future? Together, participants will analyze the current state and future expectations
for news and publishing XML efforts from both the content and
processing model perspectives. The goal of the summit is to increase
understanding about the state of news standards, to highlight
standards-based implementation and to drive practical, productive
convergence.
The program will feature
presentations from the key news standards efforts balanced by
an implementation status report from a panel of international
users. Dr. Miles Whitehead, Senior Technologist, Reuters, will deliver the
Keynote Presentation, "Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Text
but Were Afraid to Ask." The day will conclude with an open session where productive
ideas for moving forward will be proposed. Networking with others in the News
Industry is a key component of the Summit.
All program and registration information is available at http://www.newssummit.org/. Those who
attend the summit will be given a discount on registration for the XTech 2005
Conference. (http://www.xtech-conference.org/2005/registration.asp).
About G-SAM
G-SAM
is a not for profit professional Trade Association, which exists to promote the
development and adoption of technologies to manage, protect and create value
from digital assets. The group promotes integrated products and processes that
support interoperability and open standards that will drive adoption and user
acceptance of digital asset management (DAM) and related technologies with over
200 corporate members worldwide. Principal Founding Members of G-SAM are Avid
Technology (NYSE: AVID), IBM (NYSE: IBM), Ascent Media (NYSE:L), Artesia
Technologies, Sony (NYSE: SNE) and WAM!NET, a division of SAVVIS Communications
(SVVS), Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS), and Quark. For more information, please
visit http://www.gsam.org.
About IFRA
Ifra, the world's leading
association for media publishing, is a service organisation dedicated to the
publishing industry worldwide. More than 2000 publishing companies and
suppliers to the publishing industry are currently Ifra members. Ifra is their
forum to exchange experiences and to learn from one another. Ifra's name
originates from "INCA-FIEJ Research Association", whereby
"INCA" stands for "International Newspaper Colour
Association" and "FIEJ" stands for "Fédération
Internationale des Editeurs de Journaux". Today the name "Ifra"
stands by itself.
About IPTC
The IPTC, International Press
Telecommunications Council, based in Windsor, England,
is a consortium of the world's major news agencies, news publishers and news
industry vendors. It develops and maintains technical standards that are used
by virtually every major news organization in the world.
About XTech
XTech is a key forum for the web,
XML, and open standards worlds. Formerly known as the XML Europe Conference,
XTech has widened its scope to incorporate neighboring technologies from the
web and business. As well as XML, XTech 2005 will cover web development,
browsers, open data, the semantic web and more.
About IDEAlliance
IDEAlliance (International Digital
Enterprise Alliance) is a not-for-profit membership organization advancing
user-driven, cross-industry solutions for all publishing and content-related
processes by developing standards, fostering business alliances, and
identifying best practices. IDEAlliance has been a leader in information
technology - developing Document Markup Metalanguage (GENCODE),
sponsoring the development of Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), and
fostering eXtensible Markup Language (XML). IDEAlliance builds on these
languages to create specifications including Publishing Requirements for
Industry Standard Metadata (PRISM), Digital Image Submission Criteria (DISC)
and Information and Content Exchange (ICE) that enhance efficiency and speed
information in all aspects of publishing and content-related processes. Learn
more about IDEAlliance at www.idealliance.org.
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Marion L. Elledge
VP, Information Technologies Programs
IDEAlliance http://www.idealliance.org
Watch for upcoming events:
XTECH 2005 - 24-27 May - Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
http://www.xtech.org
Extreme 2005 - August 1-5 - Montreal,
Quebec, Canada http://www.extrememarkup.com
XML 2005 - November 14-18 - Atlanta,
Georgia
http://www.xmlconference.org
