Friday, March 7, 2008

NewsML

NewsML is an Extensible Markup Language (XML) to designed, and to provide a media-independent, and structural framework for multi-media news. NewsML is created by International Press Telecommunications Council(IPTC). This design is used to publish news in any format. It is used by the news providers to combine pictures, video, text, graphics and audio files in news output available on web sites, mobile phones, high end desktops interactive television and in any other device. This helps the publisher to create packages of information that is targeted at specific audiences. The would help the consumers to personalized their news. NewsML provides an accurate, objective set of description tools, which help to qualify the information and make the search more precise. Users will be able to search the news by using description. NewsML is able to contain stories in differenct languages.

References:
http://about.reuters.com/newsml/contacts.asp
http://about.reuters.com/newsml/whynewsml.asp

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