9 NEWSFEED Updates & upgrades
WAZEE UPGRADES STOCK FOOTAGE PORTAL
The UK’s Digital Production Partnership has released a new implementation guide, DPP Metadata Exchange for News. The guide aims to help news organisations and vendors implement a common metadata framework based on the International Press Telecommunications Committee (IPTC) NewsML-G2 standard. It’s hoped the DPP Metadata Exchange for News will help in the streamlining and automation of news processes, versioning and management of rights and restrictions from planning to delivery. The DPP Metadata Exchange for News implementation guide provides an overview of the minimum metadata requirements for exchange, introduces new production workflows, maps the business requirements to IPTC NewsML-G2 and provides detailed implementation guidance covering the end-to-end news production process. Wazee Digital has relaunched its Wazee Digital Commerce portal. The stock footage library now features improved search, preview, download and purchase functions, while offering sellers of stock footage a better storefront experience. The upgrade has faster search, preview, download and collection management along with more intuitive navigation, including enhanced video playback, accelerated downloads and simplified checkout Wazee’s Digital Commerce portal hosts video content from more than 120 suppliers, including 4K content, news archives, establishing shots, nature imagery and drone footage with associated metadata. The portal is powered by the company's enterprise software-as-a-service cloud platform, Wazee Digital Core. "One of our main goals is to simplify the user experience while remaining cloud-native, scalable and agile. We also strive to ensure our products have a progressive and elegant look and feel. With this upgrade, Commerce is faster, more intuitive and more powerful than ever before," said Wazee Digital CTO Greg Loose.
DPP STREAMLINES NEWS METADATA
metadata between international broadcasters and news agencies. “The lack of basic metadata in end- to-end digital news workflows has introduced inefficiencies in newsrooms around the world,” said DPP managing director, Mark Harrison. “The development of a common metadata framework will enable newsgathering organisations and their suppliers to increase efficiency by supporting and enabling faster discovery, better rights- informed exploitation, automation and greater re-use of captured content.” The DPP will launch a testing programme for DPP Metadata Exchange for News tools and will offer a DPP Tested certification for products and services that are interoperable. DPP Metadata Exchange for News is available for download at: https:// www.digitalproductionpartnership. co.uk/what-we-do/metadata- exchange-for-news/
This includes: • Transfer of news planning information to in-field news acquisition systems
• Transfer of captured assets (clips) and metadata from in-field news acquisition systems to media asset management systems • Transfer of news content and metadata to NLEs • Exchange of news content and
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