Survey of Newspaper Production Flow for E-paper - Kungliga ...

Johan Danckwardt
Survey of newspaper production flow for e-paper Appendix
* The system uses both internal picture databases and external as Scanpix.
How does TT and TT-Spektra deliver their content?
The delivery to the Newspapers “paper edition” and the web edition is handled as two
different things. The delivery to the paper edition is handled through the system Passage.
Passage handles content and information from several news agencies, such as TT and Reuters.
Passage gets the content from the news agencies in XML documents.
TT and TT-spectra delivers news items to the newspapers webpage. The news items are
delivered in the modified XML standard TT-NITF. In the XML files there are a lot of useful
content beside the article content. In the XML file you can find information about priority,
placement, date and time. The priority is used by SVD to place the news item with the highest
priority more visible than the other news items. The maximum time that a news item can be
placed on svd.se is 12 hours, this concerns the page one. The ordinary news items are
oublished for a longer time. Then buying the service from TT you decide how much content
you want, maybe you only are interested of summary of the news items. Then you only are
allowed to publish the summary even though you get all the content. The XML files are
delivered to a inbox where the newspaper picks them up and places them on the intended
webpage. During night time this is handled automatically.
NITF stands for News Industry Text Format. NITF uses XML (eXtensible Markup Language)
to define content and structure of news articles (NITF, 2004).
What is the difference between the content from TT and TT-Spectra at svd.se?
TT-Spektra delivers culture, TV charts and entertainment news and TT delivers domestic and
international news, sports et cetera.
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