In today’s newsrooms, assigning metadata to articles has become an essential part of the publishing process. Metadata includes information such as the author’s name, the publication date, and the section of the website the article belongs to (e.g., culture or sports). The purpose of this metadata is to provide quick, structured information about an article…
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IPTC Media Topics
The IPTC (International Press Telecommunications Council) calls itself the global standards body for news media. In this article we focus on one of its standards: Media Topics. This standard contains a subject taxonomy for media, which is a topic hierarchy that can be used to classify news articles. *Example of a subset of Media Topics…