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May 10, 2012

Yoshi Shibata makes a presentation titled “FIMS Activities Updates” (in Japanese) at the X Day Seminar - NAB 2012 Report: Remarkable Trend, presented by the industrial monthly magazine “New Media”.

April 18, 2012

The report on SMPTE standard committee Atlanta meeting (2012/3/5-8) is published.

April 17, 2012

Yoshi Shibata makes a presentation titled “UMID Applications in FIMS” at the FIMS booth (N517) in 2012 NAB Show.

April 11, 2012

The metaFrontier Newsmail vol.2 (in Japanese) is published.

April 11, 2012

News release is issued on the proposal of new activities for the UMID Applications to SMPTE.

April 10, 2012

A proposal of new activities for the UMID Applications has been officially approved by the SMPTE Standard Committee.

March 17, 2012

FIMS Supporter Sponsorship Plan is announced for the exhibition of FIMS Booth (N517) at 2012 NAB Show.

March 8, 2012

Yoshi Shibata retries a proposal of new activities for the UMID Applications at the SMPTE Standard Community Atlanta Meeting.

March 1, 2012

Yoshi Shibata’s paper titled “UMID Applications in Practices”  is published in  “SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal” (March, 2012).

February 28, 2012

The report on SMPTE standard committee Burbank meeting (2011/12/5-9) is published.

February 14, 2012

The metaFrontier Newsmail vol.1 (in Japanese) is published.

February 1, 2012

Yoshi Shibata's interview article is published in the WizSqure News (the first issue) (in Japanese).

January 27, 2012

Yoshi Shibata makes a presentation titled “A trial toward the SMPTE standard - for the international standardization of UMID, the unique material identifier of audiovisual materials”(in Japanese) at the New Year Seminar presented by JAVCOM (Japan Association of Video Communications).

January 23, 2012

The RfT (Request for Technologies) for FIMS Phase2 is closed with a result of 30 use cases proposed by 10 companies.

January 18, 2012

AS-11 MXF for Program Contribution Specification is approved by AMWA Board.

January 18, 2012

The final draft of EBU TT (Timed Text), the next generation subtitle format specifications in EBU, is announced for the industrial review.

January 5, 2012

The metaFrontier.jp, LLC has formally started.

December 12, 2011

“The File Base Book 2”(in Japanese), to which Yoshi Shibata contributes the FIMS introductory article, is published by New Media Inc.

December 8, 2011

Yoshi Shibata makes a proposal of new activities for the UMID Applications at the SMPTE Standard Community Burbank Meeting.

Nobember 30, 2011

The FIMS Webinar (the online seminar) was presented by J.P.Evain, et al.

Nobember 25, 2011

Yoshi Shibata's presentation titled “UMID Applications in Practices” at the SMPTE 2011 Annual Technical Conference is introduced on the SMPTE main Homepage (See here for the snapshot of the day and here for the movie only).

October 25, 2011

Yoshi Shibata makes a presentation titled “UMID Applications in Practices” at the SMPTE 2011 Annual Technical Conference.

October 22, 2011

The deadline of RfT (Request for Technologies) for the FIMS Phase2 is announced to be postponed to January 15, 2012.

October 1, 2011

Yoshi Shibata’s article titled “FIMS comes after FileBase Part 3 - FIMS Features and Implementations” (in Japanese) is published in the industrial monthly magazine “New Media” (November).

September 11, 2011

In the FIMS meeting (Sept.11, Amsterdam), a decision is made to publish the FIMS 1.0 Specification draft for review in public. Any feedback is expected to be submitted due October 31, 2011.

September 1, 2011

Yoshi Shibata’s article titled “FIMS comes after FileBase Part 2 - Web Service and SOA System” (in Japanese) is published in the industrial monthly magazine “New Media” (October).

August 26, 2011

Yoshi Shibata makes a presentation titled “Introduction to Media SOA/FIMS - Standardization Activity of Service Interfaces for Media Systems” (11-2) (in Japanese) at the ITE Annual Convention 2011.

August 1, 2011

Yoshi Shibata’s article titled “FIMS comes after FileBase Part 1 - Media SOA and the FIMS Eve” (in Japanese) is published in the industrial monthly magazine “New Media” (September).