G2-Standards

The G2-Standards are a family of news exchange format standards, using state-of-the-art metadata and XML technology to combine rich functionality, easy of use, compactness and compatibility with the Semantic Web. A general overview of the G2-Standards can be found at www.g2-standards.org.
This section of the IPTC Developer Site is about the implementation of G2-Standards and their further development.

Members of the family of G2-Standards are:

  • NewsML-G2: provides the general G2 News Architecture and news content specific features. This is also the brand name of specification packages.
  • EventsML-G2: provides event data specific features and builds on the G2 News Architecture
  • SportsML-G2: provides sports data as content of NewsML-G2

NewsML-G2 Release History

(latest release on the top of the list)

  • NewsML-G2 2.14: Developer Release (see below Release Types) on 4 April 2013 - find the specifications, documentation and examples in the subfolders of www.iptc.org/std/NewsML-G2/2.13  - a ZIP package of all documents is available (48MB - download) and slim one without the XML Schema diagrams (4 MB - download). All changes from version 2.13 to 2.14 can be found on the Approved Changes page.
  • NewsML-G2 2.13: Developer Release (see below Release Types) on 3 December 2012 - find the specifications, documentation and examples in the subfolders of www.iptc.org/std/NewsML-G2/2.13  - a ZIP package of all documents is available (46MB - download) and slim one without the XML Schema diagrams (4 MB - download). All changes from version 2.12 to 2.13 can be found on the Approved Changes page.
  • NewsML-G2 2.12: Annual Public Release (see below Release Types) on 20 November 2012 - find the specifications, documentation and examples in the subfolders of www.iptc.org/std/NewsML-G2/2.12  - a ZIP package of all documents is available (46MB - download) and slim one without the XML Schema diagrams (4 MB - download). All changes from version 2.11 to 2.12 can be found on the Approved Changes page.

NewsML-G2 Release Types

For the G2-Standards the IPTC defines two types of releases:

  • Annual Public Release = full release of specification documents, an implementation guide and additional documentation and tools. The goal is to have such a release each 12 months in about November of each year.
  • Developer Release = only XML Schema files and their documentation, no full specification text document and the implementation guide is not updated for this version. But the specification is fully tested and valid. If the specifications have been changed it will be released in December or April.