ByLines, NewsML and interop with other syndication formats

[Bob Wyman]

I’ve spent an interesting day in Amsterdam at the IPTC News Summit and had a chance to talk about standards convergence issues with various folk in the IPTC (owners of NewsML, NITF, EventsML, SportsML, ANPA, etc.). These folk seem sincerely interested in getting some better worked out compatibility between things like NewsML and Atom…             I’d like to suggest that we explicitly invite the IPTC folk to propose a set of Atom extensions (that would include ByLine) with the intention that these extensions would incorporate their detailed knowledge of the publishing world and facilitate the interchange or translation of documents between NewsML, NITF, etc. formats and Atom.                           bob wyman