Laurent Le Meur

Laurent Le Meur, 45, is manager of the Médialab unit at Agence France Presse.

The AFP Médialab unit coordinates AFP New Media projects worldwide, drives the development of innovative online platforms, enhances the integration of content into client-side editorial systems, and develops new products for the print media.

With an expertise on XML, metadata industry standards and their use in the press industry, Laurent chairs the IPTC News Architecture Working Party and leads the XML development efforts inside AFP. He also participates to the W3C Multimedia Semantics Incubator Group and to the ACAP (Automatic Content Access Protocol) project.

Laurent is skilled in object oriented software development and image processing; he earned his French engineer diploma (Ph.D) at the ENS Physique Marseille.

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