IPTC Core next version Michael W Steidl IPTC

Design goals • • • Keep the focus on primary use for photography Add

First steps • Listening: – Talked to people from primarily stock photo agencies/libraries at

Next steps • More listening and asking. • Setting up a working group to

Final steps • Provide an easy to understand documentation with examples. • Provide translations.

Timeline • Collecting requirements: until October 2006 • Assessing requirements, sorting out what to

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Design goals • • • Keep the focus on primary use for photography Add properties for better describing photo content Extend existing or create new (photocentric) News. Codes Do not add too much – keep the IPTC Core simple. Define a migration path between the IPTC Core and the NAR metadata structures. © 2006 IPTC All rights reserved 2

First steps • Listening: – Talked to people from primarily stock photo agencies/libraries at the CEPIC Conference 2006 about requirements: - taxonomy of “real things” (not abstract concepts) required: e. g. objects of the nature, all kind of living things, humans - extending the Subject NCD in the area of lifestyle - fields for named entities (appearing in the picture) - fields and a taxonomy for rights information (copy right, usage rights) - in general: fields for stock photography (proposed at a CEPIC panel discussion) to complement IPTC news centric fields. • Asking: – Set up a “IPTC Core wish list” form on the web, not linked and advertised yet. (Do we agree on that approach? ) – Inviting users to send requirements © 2006 IPTC All rights reserved 3

Next steps • More listening and asking. • Setting up a working group to assess the received “wishes” and requirements. • Collaboration with other bodies on complementing standards for: - rights metadata - stock photography specific fields Collaboration = trying to avoid overlapping specifications. • Considering the user interface issue: how to get user interfaces for controlled vocabularies implemented? (Beyond a decent usability they must adopt and update vocabularies. ) © 2006 IPTC All rights reserved 4

Timeline • Collecting requirements: until October 2006 • Assessing requirements, sorting out what to adopt and starting to work on specifications: until Spring 2007 Meeting. • Working on implementation issues like the user interface: in parallel. © 2006 IPTC All rights reserved 6