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International Press Telecommunications Council

SportsML-G2 is a convenient way to share sports statistics in a concise, unambiguous way.

NewsML is an XML standard developed by the IPTC to provide a media-independent, structural enveloping framework for multi-media news.

NewsML-G2 acts as an envelope and organizer so that news providers can create single news items — text, photos, video or anything else — and bundle them into concise cohesive packages than can be automatically processed by web CMSs or newsroom systems.

EventsML-G2 optimises the sharing of event information such as meetings, sports events, elections, and even rocket launches — virtually any announced activity that can be broadly classified as an "event."

It was recently superseded by NewsML-G2, although IPTC plans to support this standards as NewsML 1.x indefinitely.

SportsML is a convenient way to share sports statistics in a concise, unambiguous way.

Press Council

International Press Telecommunications Council, a consortium of the world's major news agencies and news industry vendors



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