The International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) is an international consortium of the world's major news agencies, news publishers and news industry vendors. It develops and maintains technical standards for improved news exchange that are used by virtually every major news organization in the world. Among other activities, IPTC provides numerous classification schemas to standardize the coding of article metadata.
There are several models that implement this classification in several different languages. The classification is done in the categories defined by the edition released in December 2010 of IPTC's subject code taxonomy. This edition contains 1388 non-deprecated categories.
Category code
Category name01000000
arts, culture and entertainment02000000
crime, law and justice03000000
disaster and accident04000000
economy, business and finance05000000
education06000000
environmental issue07000000
health08000000
human interest09000000
labour10000000
lifestyle and leisure11000000
politics12000000
religion and belief13000000
science and technology14000000
social issue15000000
sport16000000
unrest, conflicts and war17000000
weather