News articles are often associated with multiple headlines. For instance our sample article appeared with the following five headlines when first published in The New York Times.

• "Allies are Split Over Final Goal of Libya Mission" - Page A1 of the print edition of The New York Times
• "NATO Takes Command" - Sub-headline on page A1 of the print edition of The New York Times
• "Strategy for an Exit and the Fate of Qaddafi Remain Murky" - Sub-headline on page A1 of the print edition of The New York Times
• "Ultimate Goal of Mission In Libya Divides Allies" - Page A9 of the print edition of The New York Times after a jump from page A1.
• "Allies Are Split on Goal and Exit Strategy in Libya" - Online headline at http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/world/africa/25policy.html

In order to manage this profusion of headlines, the rNews Headline class provides implementors with the ability to associate multiple headlines of multiple types with a single Article object. The Headline class specifies three attributes: headlineText, headlineType and headlineTypeUri. In subsequent versions of rNews, the headlineType/Uri attributes will be assigned values from an IPTC controlled vocabulary for headline types which is currently under development.

 

The table below enumerates all attributes of the Headline class and provides the expected data type, category (core/power) and a definition of each attribute.

 

Attribute	Type	Category	Definition
headline	xsd:string	core	The text of a headline.
headlineType	xsd:string	core	The type of a headline.
headlineTypeUri	xsd:anyURI	core	The URI for the type of a headline.

 

To express our sample article's many Headline objects in RDF/Turtle using attributes from the rnews Headline class, we would write the following:

      @prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> .
      @prefix rnews: <http://iptc.org/std/rNews/2011-02-02#> .
      
      <http://dev.iptc.org/rNews-Sample-Story#headline>;
        a rnews:Headline ;
        rnews:div "Allies Are Split on Goal and Exit Strategy in Libya" ;
        rnews:headlineType "headline" . 
      
      <http://dev.iptc.org/rNews-Sample-Story#print_headline>;
        a rnews:Headline ;
        rnews:headlineText "Allies are Split Over Final Goal of Libya Mission" ;
        rnews:headlineType "print_headline" . 
      
      <http://dev.iptc.org/rNews-Sample-Story#print_jump_headline>;
        a rnews:Headline ;
        rnews:headlineText "Ultimate Goal of Mission In Libya Divides Allies" ;
        rnews:headlineType "print_jump_headline" . 
      
      <http://dev.iptc.org/rNews-Sample-Story#print_sub_headline_1>;
        a rnews:Headline ;
        rnews:headlineText "NATO Takes Command" ;
        rnews:headlineType "print_sub_headline" . 
      
      <http://dev.iptc.org/rNews-Sample-Story#print_sub_headline_2>;
        a rnews:Headline ;
        rnews:headlineText "Strategy for an Exit and the Fate of Qaddafi Remain Murky" ;
        rnews:headlineType "print_sub_headline" .