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Short version NewsML in Japan; how it is used and issues Takahiro Fujiwara Koji Tanaka Japan Newspaper Publishers & Editors Association (NSK) IPTC Member
Takahiro Fujiwara, Senior Manager of NewsML Solutions EAST Co., Ltd. Japan Member of IPTC and NSK NewsML Team Key member of NSK NewsML team In charge of authoring detailed description manuals of NewsML Conducting study meeting for beginners in the team since last year Made presentations at a number of seminars and introduced NewsML in some magazines for the promotion of the NewsML in Japan Associate member of IPTC from Sep-2002 Realizes importance of cooperation with IPTC for the resolution of NewsML issues in Japan Rich experience of consultation on many NewsML systems in Japan, and now is managing production of professional tools of NewsML in EAST Co., Ltd. IPTC Member
Japan Newspaper Publishers & Editors Association (NSK) z Self-organization that establishes and implements newspaper code of ethics. Aggregate corporation established in July 1946 z Total 155 companies comprising Newspaper companies 112 news agencies 4, broadcasting companies 39 (radio only 8, TV only 25, radio and TV 6) z Standardization group consists of one or two representatives from each member company for each objective. Solution vendors may participate to cooperate. NewsML team Performs activities needed for domestic utilization of NewsML NSK TIFF Image format containing IIM of IPTC Standardization of newspaper colors, etc. IPTC Member
NewsML Activities in NSK NewsML team z Decide how to use NewsML in Japan Define structures and vocabularies for Japan to establish common form that can be used among companies Publish NewsML Instructions (Aug-2001) Publish Image transmission Guidelines (Sep-2002) Study how to use NewsML practically operty ata/pr Metad Ite m tent es Con Lin ws Ne Topic Set z Technical information exchange with IPTC Make request to IPTC regarding problems z Developing ProgramGuideML (Radio and TV Listing) IPTC Member
NewsML Adoption NewsML was brought into service in Japan around 2001. Most newspaper companies and news agencies have planned to adopt NewsML today. IPTC Member
Why Japanese Newspaper companies and News Agencies decided to use NewsML Why Kyodo News adopted NewsML NewsML is the standard adapted by NSK NSK provided a number of documents and services such as instruction manuals, presentations, and system examples, giving them peace of mind NewsML is suited to their services Their own legacy format can be included Why other companies adopted NewsML Kyodo News, which is news source of most companies, adopted NewsML Difficult to create own standard and provide documents to receiver Increased demand for services can be expected by adopting standard IPTC Member
Particular Appeal Points of NewsML for Japan Media Independent Anything can be included in ContentItem for delivery Various types of meta data are supported, and they are expandable by Property element By supporting only Property element and TopicSet, receiving system can support portions expanded by each company Each company can define and expand controlled vocabulary by TopicSet IPTC Member
How NewsML and Related Contents are Used in Japan Report with detailed case examples IPTC Member
Koji Tanaka, Chief Engineer, Production System Department The Mainichi Newspapers. Vice Chairman of NewsML team, Japan Newspaper Publishers & Editors Association (NSK). Email: tanaka@mbx.mainichi.co.jp Introduced his company s NewsML system, at the NSK Newspapers Production Seminar, December 2002 Leader of the group promoting the spread of NewsML in NSK. Held a lecture about the way how to study NewsML in Page2003, the exhibition held by the Japan Association of Graphic Arts Technology. Project manager of NewsML Content Management System Project manager of Election News System Joined many projects of the newspaper s computer system Sports Event System(for the National Athletic Meet,Japan- League soccer, etc.), Financial Accounting News System, Radio-TV Listings System IPTC Member
Japanese Newspaper Companies and News Agencies National Papers The Yomiuri The Asahi The Mainichi The Nikkei The Sankei Regional Papers The Hokkaido The Chunichi (Group) The Nishinihon Local(Prefecture) Papers Other The Chugoku The Shizuoka The Kobe The Kahoku The Kyoto The The Niigata : Nishinihon Over 40 Papers Sport News Industry News etc The Hokkaido Osaka Tokyo The Chunichi(Group) ABC-Japan Based Oct-2001 Total Daily Circulations 53,708,831 copies News Providers Kyodo News Jiji Press Radio TV Listings Tokyo News IPTC Member
Characteristics of Japanese Newspaper companies and News Agency Industries Japanese national and regional newspapers have multiple headquarters per one company For this reason, newspaper companies have functions of news agencies as well In many cases, not only news agencies provide receiving systems but newspaper companies also create receiving systems by themselves Osaka Tokyo IPTC Member
Example of NewsML Use: Japanese News agency and Newspapers News Agency PHOTO Newspapers Contents Management System O U O T U P T U P T U T Contents Management System CTS Newspapers Media Media System DB DB Media Media System broadcast station Cell phon e broadcast station Web
NewsML Example (1) MAITY Contents Management System THE MAINICHI NEWSPAPERS One of Japan s national newspapers publishes about 5 million copies. IPTC Member
MAITY MAINICHI Contents Management System Full-fledged Contents Management System using Newspapers Restructure Workflow All reporters PC are equipped with MAITY Terminal Soft Tasks in the future Close relationship with Newspaper Pagination System It is important to tune Database Applying NewsML to KYODO & Tokyo News Agency Start at December 2003 IPTC Member
One source Multi use Text Image Image Management System Newspapers Pagination System Text Management System Integrate Audio Contents Management System movie Diverse kind of Media (Palace System) Database System Present SysTEM MAITY
Work Flow Restructure Creation Store Text,Image,or,Movi e Editing Edit the News Objects Layout Layout the News Objects Checking Data Store Searc h Submmit Contents Management System Diverse kind of Media Share with News Information immediately
NewsML Example (2) PALACE Media Media System THE MAINICHI NEWSPAPERS One of Japan s national newspapers publishes about 5 million copies. IPTC Member
PALACE SYSTEM Concept It corresponds to the demand specification of multimedia and a client quickly. The integrated work system which performs contents management by NewsML Necessary Components input Editing and compose news material output Delivery management Vocabulary management IPTC Member
The component of which PALACE SYSTEM consists INPUT OUTPUT/DELIVERY NewsML Xml/HTML text CSV image NewsML Conversion Autosubmitti on Mainichi NewsML NewsML- DB NewsML Xml/HTML text CSV mail movie PDF mail Edit formation Monitor station Output indicating EDIT/formation
NewsML Example (3) Other Companies in Japan IPTC Member
KYODO NEWS NewsML Legacy format transform to XML! Japan s leading news agency Serves for Japanese seventy-six newspapers (total circulation of thirty million), TV and radio stations. Cooperate with AP,REUTERS,ITAR-TASS,UPI, XINHUA NEWS,YONHAP NEWS etc Evolve plain text to XML Since 2000, analyzing the legacy text format and transformed to XML DTD. Wrapped by NewsML, deliver and manage News. Japanese service only at present. User requirements Addition of various metadata for News has been requested. Important thing is to standardize the metadata, and to enrich the automatic addition (editorial-support) tool for metadata.
TOSHIBA TOSHIBA TOSHIBA Tokyo System Program Table Creation System Provider System Kyodo s Delivery System WEB or FTP Server NewsML Provider System Osaka System DA Route r 192 s DA Route r NewsML Provider System DA Route r 65 newspapers Company A Company A Tokyo News Service Developing Schedule May 2002 Appointed Toshiba to developer June 2002- Developing specifications Adopted NewsML Adopted MQ System IBM WebSphere MQ Explanatory meetings for member firms August 2003 Started tests November 2003 Presentation meetings Tests October 2003 Kanagawa Shimbun November 2003 Mainichi Shimbun Osaka 2004 Shinano Mainichi Shimbun Chugoku Shimbun Program Table Creation System Provider System 34s Kyushu 16s 35 newspapers Delivery starts February 2004 Kanagawa Shimbun CompanyB
CHUNICHI SHIMBUN PHOTO DB Legacy system News Agency Writer Mail Scanner and so on Concept Easy to use for everyone All data is stored for one year Data appeared in a newspaper is stored eternity Format convert Other xml systems connected by NewsML Requirements Short term implementation Improving performance Speeding searches NewsML Database
The example of NIKKEI Web Newspaper Systems Reception by NewsML Distribution by NewsML Mobile TV NEWS System NIKKEI Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc. Japan s Leading Business Newspaper NEWS System The abbreviation of Nikkei Economic-data Wire Service This system ensures rapid dissemination of NIKKEI information bulletins over the Internet, etc. Multimedia contents such as articles and images are edited and distributed electronically to users. Instantaneous and regularly scheduled transmission services provide rapid dissemination of visual information. This system receives contents by NewsML, and distributes them by NewsML. Shinkansen
Integral Database for Kyoto Shimbun, Kobe Shimbun & Chugoku Shimbun 3 regional papers are running a common database Chugoku Shimbun Circulation:794,000 Common NewsML DB Kyoto Shimbun Circulation:823,000 Kobe Shimbun Circulation:820,000 The cost of development can be shared because of using standard.
IPTC Member Local Government Yamanashi Prefecture Neighboring prefecture to Tokyo with population of 0.9 million Adopted NewsML for contents of the prefecture s website Cities in the prefecture are planning to adopt NewsML. Hopes data exchange with e-government in NewsML All the data in NewsML are usable for cell phone service. Top 5 in the menu of imode by NTT DoCoMo Daily mail news service Not only in Japanese but also in English, Chinese, Korean, French, Portuguese Reason of the adoption of NewsML 1. Usability of data One data can be used for both websites of Prefecture and cities. 2. Low expenditure 3. Total system The prefecture has been made each system designed for a purpose, however total system can be made. 4. Newspapers and news agencies using NewsML. NewsML can be used to distribute press release or data to news agencies also be useful to obtain news and data from them.
Proposal on How to Spread News Standard IPTC Member
How to Spread News Standard -1 Make Standard easy to use Specify practical use as well as specifications For example, fix structures by its purpose Refer to the detailed settings of DefaultVocabularyFor Need for education Clarify, in particular, how to implement processing Involve data receiving companies in Study Important to increase companies capable of receiving IPTC Member
How to Spread News Standard -2 Cooperation with Other Associations (e.g. OASIS, Ifra) Information Activities Exhibition Seminar Promote case introduction Establish a NewsML professional certificate IPTC Member
How to Spread News Standard -3 Current tools related to NewsML IPTC NewsML Compliance Checker For Syntax checking not possible with DTD or Schema IPTC Subject Viewer IPTC Metadata Web site Reuters NewsML Tool Kit Tools under development by EAST EAST NewsML Checker Successor to IPTC NewsML Compliance Checker EAST TopicSet Service Manage TopicSet Convert control vocabulary between different standards Tools needed in future XPath setup tools for BasisForChoice and DefaultVocabularyFor Profile setup tools IPTC Member
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Status of NewsML Content Conversion to XML Articles Some companies converted contents to XML. Companyunique DTD is used NITF will study adoption because it supports Ruby now Glyph information is still missing Radio/TV NITF is used for optional additional program commentary NSK is acting mainly develop standard called ProgramGuideML Election Not converted to XML Sports Some companies converted contents to XML. Companyunique DTD is used Weather Forecast Converted to XML by Japan Meteorological Agency, but is not for newspaper Events Some companies converted Events Schedule to XML. Company-unique DTD is used Company Accounting Information Adopting XBRL by itself? We have no information IPTC Member
About NSK NewsML Team Functions of NSK NewsML Team are as follows: Setting up guidelines in using NewsML for interchanging news among Japanese media. Maintaining TopicSets for NewsML. Promoting NewsML adoption. Participating in IPTC discussions. Started in September 2000. Membership Newspapers, News agencies, Broadcasters and Solution Vendors Newspapers Asahi, Mainichi, Yomiuri, Nikkei, Sankei, etc News Agency Kyodo News, Jiji Press, Tokyo News vendors EAST, Nikon, NSG, Toshiba, Panasonic etc 71 members from 41 companies IPTC Member
Why standards is preferred between News Agencies and Newspaper companies Objectives of new format was set in 2000 as follows: Reduce expenditure on equipment Make data exchange possible when disasters strike, such as earthquake News from newspaper companies located at disaster site may be printed by other newspapers A format is needed that can be used for image and text concurrently NewsML was selected for the following reasons after standards were searched Images and articles can be handled together Meta data can be added that is suited to material management Benefit of XML, independence from platforms, can be exploited IPTC Member
History of NewsML - Adoption in Japan z NSK organized a new dataformat establishing-team in 2000 NewsML was not adopted yet z Started by studying NewsML z Studied NewsML at Reuters and IPTC in London z Proposed NewsML to Kyodo News z Created NSK's NewsML guidelines General guidelines Guidelines for images IPTC Member
IPTC Member History of NewsML - NewsML Promotion Activities after its Adoption -1 Explanation to other associations The institute of Image Electronics Engineers of Japan Japanese Standards Association Japanese Information Industry Association TV-Anytime Forum European Broadcasting Union OASIS Japan Cooperation with other associations XML Consortium Japan Association of Radio Industries and Businesses (ARIB) Japan Electronic Publishing Association Seminar NSK Newspaper creation class 2001, 2002 NSK working-level seminar 2003 Page2003 -- Hosted by Japan Association of Graphic Arts Technology Press Release Experimental trial of Web services with NewsML (XML Consortium 2002) Introduction by Magazines NSK Newspaper Technology Print Technology Nikkei Computer Monthly ASCII Computer literacy XML Business White Paper Others
History of NewsML - NewsML Promotion Activities after its Adoption -2 Exhibition JANPS2001, 2003 Advertising NewsML companies, this year NEC SAKATA INX TOSHIBA IBM Japan EAST Fujitsu Founder Panasonic Canon NSG Sanno NET&COM 2003 Hosted by NIKKEI Business Publications IPTC Member
Issues when adopted NewsML - Want to embed Fixed Structure in Free Structure Want to indicate collection of raw materials and show the purpose of the use Only one Role element can be stated Now solved by multiple use of NewsComponent and Metadata Concern is too many NewsComponents IPTC Member
Issues when adopted NewsML - Need to inform what is included where NewsML's advantage is flexible structure but because of this it is impossible to tell what is included where Fix whole tree structure and inform what is included where using something like XPath IPTC Member
Thank you for Your Attention! We showed you short version today. You can download full version of this presentation from: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nss2003-nsk/files/ - Expiry Date: 31 st, March 2004 - Registration is required. IPTC Member
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