Horizon Europe: joint letter in support of the integration of cultural and creative sectors
For a better Integration of Europe’s most valuable assets, its cultural and creative sectors.
Technology
Commission to invest €30 billion in new solutions for societal challenges and breakthrough innovation
Brussels, 27 October 2017 The European Commission today announced how it will spend €30 billion of the EU research and innovation funding programme Horizon 2020 during 2018-2020, including €2.7 billion to kick-start a European Innovation Council. Horizon 2020, the EU’s €77 billion research and innovation funding programme, supports scientific excellence in Europe and has contributed … Continued
IPTC to Update RightsML to Align With W3C’s ODRL
IPTC is looking for members and experts with experience in defining licensing information in a machine-readable way to help adapt IPTC’s RightsML standard according to the new ODRL Recommendation, which will specifically address the needs of the news industry.
German search engine MetaGer with protected privacy now available in English language
MetaGer is non-commercial, run by the German NGO ‘SUMA-EV – Association for Free Access to Knowledge’. It relies little on advertising as a source of income, instead being financed largely by donations and SUMA-EV membership fees.
IPTC Conference at CEPIC Congress Berlin 2017 – An eye on the future – how will media search develop?
If you couldn’t attend the IPTC Conference this year, you can review the material from your desk!
IPTC Video Day 25 October
Documentation on the IPTC Video Day in Berlin on 25 October 2016 is now avaiable.
IPTC’s News at a Crossroads symposium – come and see what happened
IPTC is celebrating our 50th anniversary in 2015. The “News at a Crossroads” Symposium was the culminating event of our celebrations. Categories of change were examined separately with presentations and a discussion, open to the floor, and in a fourth session brought together to examine the crossroads and see how their findings might benefit each other.
The IPTC hits 50 with a seminar about the future of news
The IPTC has marked it’s 50th birthday with a seminar in London called ‘News at a Crossroads – Navigating a Changing Landscape’. The afternoon seminar gave us a high speed ride through changes in the news industry now and in the future.
Digital Rights Management in JPEG? Is DRM back?
It is with great interest that CEPIC members have taken note of the intention of the JPEG’s Joint Expert Group to integrate DRM (Digital Rights Management) into an extended JPEG standard. Is it a new promising method allowing to fight against a high and raising rate of online piracy ?
DOI Outreach Conference, Milan, 21 November
DOI stands for Digital Object Identifier, an identifier applied to digital objects. There are over 100 million DOI allocated worldwide to all kinds of content.
