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The '''IPTC message format''' is a format established by The International Press Telecommunications Council for interchanging of text-based data in the news industry. It has various specifications for the use of streams of [[ASCII]] characters including various of the [[C0 controls]] range. The format is also known as IPTC 7901. [[ANPA-1312]] is a similar American system. (IPTC is Europe-based.)

== Links ==
* [http://www.iptc.org/std/IPTC7901/1.0/specification/7901V5.pdf IPTC message format documentation]
* [http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/TagNames/IPTC.html IPTC Tags]
* [[Wikipedia:IPTC 7901|Wikipedia article: IPTC 7901]]