| Application Record Version | |
| By-line | Contains the name of the photographer, but in cases where the photographer should not be identified the name of a company or organisation may be appropriate. |
| By-line Title | Contains the job title of the photographer. As this is sort of a qualifier the Creator element has to be filled in as mandatory prerequisite for using Creator’s Jobtitle. |
| Caption-Abstract | A textual description, including captions, of the image. |
| Category | |
| City | Name of the city of the location shown in the image. This element is at the third level of a top-down geographical hierarchy. |
| Contact | A generic structure providing a basic set of information to get in contact with a person or organisation. It includes an Address, a City, a Country, Email address, Phone number, a Postal Code, a State or Province and Web URL. |
| Copyright Notice | Contains any necessary copyright notice for claiming the intellectual property for this photograph and should identify the current owner of the copyright for the photograph. Other entities like the creator of the photograph may be added in the corresponding field. Notes on usage rights should be provided in "Rights usage terms". |
| Country-Primary Location Code | Code of the country of the location shown in the image. This element is at the top/first level of a top-down geographical hierarchy. The code should be taken from ISO 3166 two or three letter code. The full name of a country should go to the "Country" element. |
| Country-Primary Location Name | Full name of the country of the location shown in the image. This element is at the top/first level of a top-down geographical hierarchy. The full name should be expressed as a verbal name and not as a code, a code should go to the element "CountryCode" |
| Credit | The credit to person(s) and/or organisation(s) required by the supplier of the image to be used when published. This is a free-text field. |
| Date Created | Designates the date and optionally the time the content of the image was created rather than the date of the creation of the digital representation. |
| Headline | A brief synopsis of the caption. Headline is not the same as Title. |
| Keywords | Keywords to express the subject of the image. Keywords may be free text and don’t have to be taken from a controlled vocabulary. Codes from the controlled vocabulary IPTC Subject NewsCodes must go to the "Subject Code" field. |
| Object Attribute Reference | Describes the nature, intellectual, artistic or journalistic characteristic of an image. |
| Object Name | A shorthand reference for the digital image. Title provides a short human readable name which can be a text and/or numeric reference. It is not the same as Headline. |
| Original Transmission Reference | Number or identifier for the purpose of improved workflow handling. This is a user created identifier related to the job for which the image is supplied. |
| Province-State | Name of the subregion of a country of the location shown in the image. This element is at the second level of a top-down geographical hierarchy. |
| Source | The name of a person or party who has a role in the content supply chain. This could be an agency, a member of an agency, an individual or a combination. Source could be different from Creator and from the entities in the Copyright Notice. |
| Special Instructions | The Instructions may include any of the following: embargoes (NewsMagazines OUT) and other restrictions not covered by the "Rights Usage Terms" field; information regarding the original means of capture (scanning notes, colourspace info) or other specific text information that the user may need for accurate reproduction; additional permissions required when publishing; credits for publishing if they exceed the IIM length of the credit field |
| Sub-location | Exact name of the sublocation shown in the image. This sublocation name could either be the name of a sublocation to a city or the name of a well known location or (natural) monument outside a city. In the sense of a sublocation to a city this element is at the fourth level of a top-down geographical hierarchy. |
| Subject Reference | Specifies one or more Subjects from the IPTC Subject-NewsCodes taxonomy to categorise the image. Each Subject is represented as a string of 8 digits in an unordered list. |
| Supplemental Categories | |
| Time Created | // Help: Enter information about embargoes, or other restrictions not covered by the Rights Usage field |
| Writer-Editor | Identifier or the name of the person(s) involved in writing, editing or correcting the Description, Alt Text (Accessibility), or Extended Description (Accessibility) of the image. |