Stuart Myles

Stuart Myles is the Director of Information Management at The Associated Press. He directs metadata strategy throughout AP's global news operations. He uses XML and JSON to structure and model the news that AP creates and distributes. Recent projects include designing AP's API services for content and metadata and architecting a Digital News Archive for over 200 million items dating back to 1985. He is AP's delegate to the IPTC, where he has co-authored standards for the news industry, including rNews for embedding publishing metadata into HTML and RightsML for representing permissions and restrictions for news content. His favourite languages are Python, XQuery and British English.