Sourcefabric joins IPTC, the global standards body of news media
We are proud to announce that Sourcefabric became an associate member of the International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) in November of 2015. IPTC is the Global Standards Body of the News Media, bringing together over 50 companies, organisations and associations from the news industry.
“Sourcefabric’s joining of IPTC sets a new milestone in the importance of open source technology for news businesses,” explains Sourcefabric’s Managing Director Sava Tatić. “IPTC has long been committed to freely available open standards. Our Superdesk software is the first open source IT solution for newsrooms.”
To promote a partnership structure around an open source newsroom code base, Sourcefabric has been invited to present Superdesk, the end-to-end news creation, production, curation, distribution, and publishing platform, at the IPTC annual meeting, held on June 13-15 2016 in Stockholm.
IPTC is dedicated to simplifying the distribution of information by developing and promoting technical standards to improve the flow of information between content providers, intermediaries and consumers.
Sourcefabric has long been building on IPTC standards, notably NewsML-G2 and ninjs (News in JSON), which are at the heart of Superdesk. Superdesk is the largest open source solution built for newsrooms today and is rapidly gaining traction amongst large players in the global news industry.
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Letizia Gambini, Head of Communications
letizia.gambini@sourcefabric.org
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