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The International Press Telecommunications Council, based in Windsor, United Kingdom, is a consortium of the world's major news agencies and news industry vendors. It develops and maintains technical standards for improved news exchange that are used by virtually every major news organization in the world.

Currently 64 companies and organisations from the news industry are members of the IPTC.

The IPTC was established in 1965 by a group of news organisations including the Alliance Européenne des Agences de Presse, ANPA (now NAA), FIEJ (now WAN) and the North American News Agencies (a joint committee of Associated Press, Canadian Press and United Press International) to safeguard the telecommunications interests of the world's press.

Since the late 1970s IPTC's activities have primarily focussed on developing and publishing industry standards for the interchange of news data.

In particular, the IPTC defined a set of metadata attributes that can be applied to images. These were defined originally in 1979, and revised significantly in 1991 to be the "Information Interchange Model" (IIM), but the concept really advanced in 1994 when Adobe defined a specification for actually embedding the metadata into digital image files - known as "IPTC headers." IPTC Headers can be embedded into JPEG/Exif or TIFF formatted image files.

In 2001, Adobe introduced something called "Extensible Metadata Platform" (XMP), which is an XML schema for the same types of metadata as IPTC, but is based on XML/RDF, and is therefore inherently extensible. The effort spawned a collaboration with the IPTC itself, eventually producing the "IPTC Core Schema for XMP," which merges the two approaches to embedded metadata. The XMP specification describes techniques for how to embed the metadata in JPEG, TIFF, JPEG2000, GIF, PNG, HTML, PostScript, PDF, SVG, Adobe Illustrator, and DNG files. Recent versions of all the main Adobe software products, (Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, Framemaker, etc.) support XMP, as do an increasing number of third-party tools.

On June 7, 2007, IPTC in cooperation with Ifra, held the First International Photo Metadata conference, titled "Working towards a seamless photo workflow" to a standing room only crowd (over 130 attendees), prior to the CEPIC Congress, in Florence, Italy.

The IPTC Photo Metadata working group released a White Paper (available from site below) which figured prominently at this event. The conference keynote was given by Andreas Trampe, head of the photodesk of Stern. Other speakers included photographers such as David Riecks and Peter Krogh, photo and news agencies such as Reuters; representives of standards bodies such as PLUS, IPTC, and IFRA; as well as spokespersons from the photo metadata implementers side, such as Adobe Systems, Apple Inc., Canon Inc., FotoWare, Hasselblad, and Microsoft.

The electronic presentations given by most of the speakers are available online from the Photo Metadata Conference website at [1] including a link to a report on each of the speakers talks [2].

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Europe:

Austria:

Canada:

Croatia:

France:

Germany

Hong Kong:

Italy:

Japan:

Sweden

Switzerland:

United Kingdom:

UK and USA:

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