info: the News Standards Summit, 8 December 2003, Philadelphia, PA (USA)

["Laurent Le Meur" <laurent.lemeur@xxxxxxx>]

I think the Atom community could be interested, especially a Sam Ruby
kindly accepted to join.

NewsML, PRISM, RSS, Atom, ICE, XMP, NITF, XHTML... As interest builds
for standardizing news dissemination, concern also grows that
specifications are being developed in isolation. How do they fit? Where
will they converge? How can developers and users collaborate to identify
gaps and overlaps and ensure their systems will be able to interoperate
now and in the future?

IPTC (International Press Telecommunications Council) invites you to
find the answers in a one-day News Standards Summit to be held Monday, 8
December 2003, in conjunction with XML 2003 in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, USA.

Goal:
The News Standards Summit will bring together major players-experts on
news metadata standards as well as commercial news providers, users, and
aggregators. Together, we will analyse the current state and future
expectations for news and publishing XML efforts from both the content
and processing model perspectives.
Our goal - to increase understanding and drive practical, productive
convergence.

Participation:
All interested parties are welcome to participate. Anyone who develops
or implements news
exchange standards is strongly encouraged to attend, particularly
providers and users of:
- Online content
- Mobile communication
- Printed news: Newspapers, magazines
- Picture libraries

Sponsors:
The News Standards Summit is a collaborative effort of organizations
committed to open standards development. Sponsors include:
IPTC http://www.iptc.org
IDEAlliance http://www.idealliance.org
IFRA http://www.ifra.com
NAA http://www.naa.org
OASIS http://www.oasis-open.org

Agenda:
The program will feature presentations from the key news standards
efforts balanced by a
requirements overview from a panel of international users. The day will
conclude with an open
session where productive ideas for moving forward will be proposed.
Networking opportunities will
be available. The complete program is posted at
www.idealliance.org/news-summit.

Speakers include:
Chet Ensign, LexisNexis
Laurent Le Meur, AFP
Alan Karben, XML Team Solutions
Ron Daniel, Taxonomy Strategies
Dianne Kennedy, IDEAlliance
Sam Ruby, IBM
Ben Hammersley, author of "Content Syndication with RSS"

Registration:
Pre-registration and a nominal meeting fee of 90 USD will be required to
cover the cost of lunch,
breaks, and room fees. Register online at
www.idealliance.org/news-summit.

We've set up a News Standards Summit Discussion Group to 
encourage discussion, in advance of the News Standards 
Summit, about how the various News standards relate to 
one another.  The Discussion Group is at:
   http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nss-discuss/

The News Standards Summit Web pages are at:
   http://www.idealliance.org/news-summit/



Laurent Le Meur
(Agence France Presse)
IPTC NewsML WP chairman