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The monthly activity reports currently available on-line are:
- OII Standards and Specifications Activity Report, September 1999

This monthly activity report contains information on activity related to a proposedOpen Forum on Metadata, a request for proposals relating to the development of aCommon Warehouse Metadata Interchange (CWMI) format, the W3C Document Object Model Level 2 Specification, a revised working draft of W3C's XML Schema proposal, Microsoft's Simple Object Access Protocol, a technical report on the use of Unicode in XML and other Markup Languages, the publication of Open eBook Publication Structure 1.0, theWebDAV Ordered Collections Protocol, the W3C Common markup for micropayment per-fee-links specification, and the Jaldaelectronic payment system.
- OII Standards and Specifications Activity Report, August 1999
This monthly activity report contains information on activity related to an extension of the Synchronized Multimedia Intergration Language (SMIL), an update to the Advanced Interactive Content Initiative's specifications, a further revised draft for the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) specification, a fifth working draft for the W3C Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) specification, the development in the US of an Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), updates to W3C specifications relating to requirements for XML Signatures, XSL Transformations (XSLT) and the XML Path Language,extensions to the Cascading Style Sheets specification to cover behaviour and advanced object selection, HTML 4.01,XHTML and the XHTML Extended Forms Requirements, a proposal for a Uniform Object Locator (UOL) specification from IETF, an XML data binding facility for the Java platform, the <indecs> metadata model and schema, Unicode 3.0 review, and a proposed NaVigation Markup Language (NVML).
- OII Standards and Specifications Activity Report, July 1999
This monthly activity report contains information on activity related to the Secure Digital Music Intitiative's Portable Device Specification, the W3C Scalable Vector Graphics Language, the new W3C XML Path Language (XPath) and the effect this has on the XML Pointer Language (XPointer), XML Linking Language (XLink) and XSL Transformations (XSLT) specifications, the W3C International Layout specification, the W3C XML Fragments specification, the W3CAuthoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines, the use of XML Schemas for the MPEG-7 Multimedia Content Description Interface, aDirectory Services Markup Language (DSML), the Workflow Management Coalition's Workflow Standard Interoperability Wf-XML Binding, Version 1.1 of the Dublin Core metadata language, the Recordkeeping Metadata Standard for Commonwealth Agencies andInternationalized Uniform Resource Identifiers (IURIs).
- OII Standards and Specifications Activity Report, June 1999
This monthly activity report contains information on activity related to new protocols for the X.509 Internet Public Key Infrastructure (PKIX), the W3C DSig and PICS code merger, publication of the approved HTTP Version 1.1 and HTTP Authentication specifications, extensions to FTP, the use of HTTP extensions to exchange "Composite Capability / Preference Profiles (CC/PP), associating style sheets with XML files, overall design of the W3C semantic web architecture, thestandardization of PNG, the use of BIIF as the basis for a new international standard for archiving, and a proposed new standardized Conceptual Reference Model (CRM) for cultural information systems.
- OII Standards and Specifications Activity Report, May 1999
This monthly activity report contains information on activity related to XML Schemas, W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, the development of a CSS Object Model, the European Electronic Signature Standardisation Initiative (EESSI), the Privacy for Privacy Preferences (P3P)specification, the <indecs> metadata modeland Digital Object Identifiers (DOI).
- OII Standards and Specifications Activity Report, April 1999
This monthly activity report contains information on activity related to a revised working draft of the Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) specification, XML Fragment Interchange, a revised working draft for the Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL), and XHTML modularization.
- OII Standards and Specifications Activity Report, March 1999
This monthly activity report contains information on activity related to the preparation of Part 1, Systems, for ISO/IEC 14496, Coding of audio-visual objects, revised requirements for the MPEG-7 Multimedia Content Description Interface, progress on the Advanced Interactive Content (AIC) Initiative, the first working draft of the XML Fragment Interchangespecification, a revision to the Open Applications Group's XML DTDs for business applications, the CEN/ISSS statement of Requirements for metadata for multimedia information, extensions to theISO 11179 Specification and standardization data elements standard, theInternational Standard Identifier for Libraries and Related Organizations (ISIL), the new Generic Electronic Document Interchange (GEDI) standard, user requirements for X.500 2000, andHTTPv1.1 and the HTTP Extension Framework.
- OII Standards and Specifications Activity Report, February 1999
This monthly activity report contains information on activity related to the W3C proposal for International Layout in Cascading Style Sheets, the W3C Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Specification, theExtensible 3D (X3D) language, the requirements statements developed to define the work of the newly formed XML Schemas and XML Information Setworking groups, the formal approval of theResource Description Framework, themetadata set proposed for use with Digital Object Identifiers, a revision to the Center for Earth Observation's Recommendations for Metadata, and the setting up of an IETFMessage Multiplexing (MEMUX) Working Group.
- OII Standards and Specifications Activity Report, January 1999
This monthly activity report contains information on activity related to the next generation of the Virtual Reality Markup Language (VRML), a WebCGM Profile, a proposed ISO Technical Report on an XML Notation for ISO 13522-5, the W3CNamespaces in XML recommendation, approval of the W3C Resource Description Framework (RDF) recommendation, the use of RDF to record Composite Capability/Preferences Profiles (CC/PP), the use of RDF to create wide-ranging metadata clusters, an update to the Learning Objects Metadata (LOM) specification, a proposed Artificial Knowledge Management Standard (AKMS), a proposed Document Definition Markup Language (DDML), progress of the ISO/IEC Delivery Multimedia Intergration Framework (DMIF)standard, ISO 639-2 3 letter language identifiers, and ISO 15740 Requirements for interconnecting digital photography devices.
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