ACAP to be unveiled at November conference
By Larry Kilman, Thursday 25 October 2007 at 15:23 :: General :: #753 :: rss
A new standard to protect the intellectual property of anyone wishing to make content available on the Internet will be unveiled at a conference in New York next month after a year-long pilot project spearheaded by leading publishing groups from around the globe.
The Automated Content Access Protocol, or ACAP, was developed during a pilot project involving publishers and the search engine Exalead (www.exalead.com). The results of these tests will be presented for the first time on 29 November at a conference at The Associated Press headquarters in New York.
ACAP is a proposed method of providing machine-readable permissions information for content. It is a non-proprietary, open system by which publishers will have greater control over how their electronic content will be used by third parties, including search engines.
Full conference details can be found here at www.the-acap.org/conference.php. There is still time to register and the conference is free.
“This conference will demonstrate, beyond all doubt, the need for ACAP and the potential disaster for the global publishing industry should it fail to embrace new technology to protect its future,” said Gavin O'Reilly, President of the World Association of Newspapers, which initiated the project with the International Publishers Association and the European Publishers Council. ACAP has grown to include more than 50 publishing companies and industry representative associations.
Speakers at the conference will include Tom Curley, CEO of Associated Press; Alain Heurtebise, CEO, Exalead Inc.; and Mr O’Reilly, the Chief Operating Officer of Independent News & Media plc. Delegates will leave the conference fully briefed on how to implement this new and potentially universal standard.
From December 2007, publishers will be encouraged to implement ACAP, which will allow publishers, broadcasters and any other publisher of content on the network to express their individual access and use policies in a language that search engine robots and similar automated tools can read and understand. The ACAP draft technical framework papers for pilot testing are now available at www.the-acap.org.
“This project has received unprecedented industry support and commitment," said Mark Bide, the ACAP Project Manager and Director of Rightscom Ltd. "Key players in the publishing and online industry have been quick to appreciate the need for ACAP and have responded by lending their corporate support and technical expertise. Our challenge now will be to communicate to the widest possible audience how ACAP can be implemented.”
Delegates can register by contacting Tessa Thier at tessa.thier@rightscom.com. There is no cost to attend.
For more information or to register, journalists can contact Heidi Lambert at heidilambert@hlcltd.demon.co.uk or on Tel: +44 (1)245 476 265 or Angela Mills Wade on Tel: +44 (0)1865 310 732
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