The News Ontology for Professional Journalism Applications

Abstract

In the Information Society, being well informed is a basic necessity. News agencies, journals, newspapers, and other communication media are required to provide fresh, relevant, high quality information to their clients. As partners of the NEWS (News Engine Web Services) EU IST project we believe that the usage of Semantic Web technologies may enable news providers to achieve these goals. So we are working on developing tools to bring Semantic Web technology into the world of professional journalism. As part of this process, we are currently developing an ontology for NEWS applications. It integrates current journalistic standards with existing top level ontologies and other metadata-related standards. In this chapter we describe the current state of that ontology, including aspects such as its intended usage, the development process and the architecture.