Standard on news presentation for mobile applications

Authors

  • O Y Balalaieva

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31548/philolog0(292).2018.0240-246

Abstract

The article deals with a one of the current trends in the development of modern journalism related to the digitalization and convergence of media, in particular the emergence of mobile journalism based on the synthesis of new information and communication technologies, efficiency, actuality and democracy. Mobile communications is called technology that will ensure the renaissance of the newspaper industry and offers a number of benefits: provide a new channel for gathering information and expanding knowledge about readership needs and interests, serving as a bridge to a new generation of audience, allow to significantly reduce administrative and organizational costs. Mobile applications are becoming more and more popular versions of online media. New forms of presentation and distribution of news via mobile communications have led to an objective need for standardization of the procedure for representation news in mobile applications and application programming interfaces, theoretical justification, creation and development of new data models. Today, new professional standards of news journalism are implemented in the Ukrainian information space. The introduction of international professional standards in domestic journalism practice remains an extremely important issue. The purpose of the article is to analyze the components of the Ninjs data model according to the standard of news representation in JSON (textual data-interchange format in JavaScrip) developed by the International Press Telecommunications Council. The standard defines key properties and structures required to represent news and publishing information in JSON for application programming interfaces, mobile applications, database etc. The Ninjs data model is analyzed. The central component of model is a News item related with four blocks of objects, such as: Descriptive metadata, Administrative metadata, Content and Associations. The main characteristics of all component attributes of the model are given.

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