rNews

What it is rNews is an IPTC-approved standard for embedding news-specific metadata in HTML documents. It provides the terminology and data model needed to give article regions machine-readable meaning through RDFa or HTML5 Microdata rather than relying on visual styling.

Key concepts

• The page covers production rNews 1.x and says version 1.2 was approved on 23 October 2013.
• Its classes include concepts, places, geographic coordinates, people, organizations, storylines, news items, articles, media objects, and user comments.
• RDFa and HTML5 Microdata are the embedding frameworks described for applying rNews metadata in HTML.
• The standard is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.

How you’d use it Mark up an online news page so machines can reliably identify the headline and other news entities and relationships independent of site-specific presentation. Follow the implementation guides for the chosen RDFa or Microdata syntax and use the class documentation or quick reference to select terms.

LLM angle none stated

Pitfalls & lessons Visual HTML styling alone is not reliable machine-readable semantics because publishers use inconsistent styles and may reuse the same style for multiple regions. The page describes an OWL ontology only as a third draft available for review, so that artifact should not be confused with the approved production status stated for rNews 1.x.

Verdict A domain-specific semantic-markup model for making online news understandable to machines, with clear RDFa and Microdata implementation paths.

Sources consulted

• http://dev.iptc.org/rNews