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For these texts the production system generates a certain minimal amount of metadata on ingest, such
as assignment ID, author name, usage rights, date and time, general news category, and urgency, as well
as subject information and references to accompanying materials such as photographs and charts.
A.1.2 PHOTOGRAPHS AND OTHER NON-TEXT MEDIA
Individual producers and contributors of image and multimedia content to newspapers employ a variety
of digital capture and recording devices. These include:
o Digital still photo cameras
o Video cameras
o Digital audio recorders
o Hybrid still/video cameras
o Cameras built into cell phones and PDAs
These devices employ a variety of proprietary and open formats and applications. Still photo and
graphic image file formats accepted by the major news production systems include: JPEG, JPEG2000,
TIFF, RAW, EPS, PNG, GIF, and PDF as well as numerous proprietary formats.
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According to Jon Swerens, The News Sentinel’s CCI Cheat Sheets, the NewsDesk editorial system accepts images
in the following formats:
Adobe Photoshop, Apple PICT, AWD Fax Format, BMP, Canon Raw Format
(CRW), Casio Digital Camera, Commodore-Amiga IFF, Computer-aided Acquisition and Logistics
Support (CALS), DCX, FAX (Brooktrout, LaserData and WinFax), FlashPix, Foveon X3F, FujiFilm
FinePix S2, Pro RAF, Graphics Interchange Format (GIF), JPEG, JPEG 2000, Kodak Photo-CD, Minolta
MRW, Kodak Professional Digital Camera, Leica Digilux 2 RAW, Nikon NEF, Olympus ORF, Paint
Shop Pro Image, Panasonic DMC-LC1 RAW, Pentax *ist D PEF, Portable Bitmap, Graymap, and
Pixelmap (PBM, PGM, PPM), PCX, Portable Network Graphics (PNG), Psion MultiBitMap, Raw
Format, Seattle Film Works, SGI Image File, Sony DSC-F828 SRF, Sony Digital Camera, Sun Raster,
TARGA, TIFF, WAP WBMP, Windows Icon, Windows Metafile, Windows XP Thumbs.db, X Bitmap,
X PixMap, X Windows Dump.
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Therefore, at minimum, locally-produced texts submitted to, or authored within, a newspaper’ s
editorial system will include information regarding the date and time of ingest, assignment or
article ID, author, urgency of information, word count, and general news. Some texts are more
richly tagged, with rights and release-related information, version information, subject key words,
date and place of origin, and references to accompanying materials.