WAN LAUNCHES AUTOMATED CONTENT ACCESS PROTOCOL (ACAP)
WAN LAUNCHES AUTOMATED CONTENT ACCESS PROTOCOL (ACAP) | |
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14 September 2006
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A technical project to enable mutually beneficial business relationships between newspaper publishers and search engines operators is being launched by the World Association of Newspapers. |
The ACAP ‘Automated Content Access Protocol’ would provide an automated system, allowing search engine crawlers to recognise copyright content owners’ access and use permissions’ information, instead of merely allowing or forbidding them to search and index the content. WAN and the European Publishers Council have produced a briefing paper for publishers in advance of the forthcoming full project proposal. A number of international publishing houses and industry association have already expressed their commitment. |
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Further information can be obtained direct from WAN and President Gavin O- Reilly is asking publishers for feedback, www.wan-press.org. The Newspaper Society, the voice of Britain's regional and local press, represents around 1,300 daily and weekly, paid-for and free, newspaper titles in the UK. The Newspaper Society is a member of UK Publishing Media: a £18 billion alliance of newspapers, magazines and books, which collectively represent one of the largest investors in the rapidly-expanding information society.
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