| 2004  | 
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              October 5 | 
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              The    Preparatory Committee Meeting for Consideration and Arrangement of Joint    Archives of Technical Papers in Information Technologies was held. | 
            
            
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              November 2 | 
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              The    Preparatory Committee Meeting for Consideration and Arrangement of Joint    Archives of Technical Papers in Information Technologies was established. The    first consideration meeting was held. | 
            
            
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              December 7 | 
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              The    second consideration meeting of the Committee for Consideration and    Arrangement of Joint Archives of Technical Papers in Information Technologies    was held. The    prospectus of foundation of Joint Archive (IT    Archives) of Technical Papers in Information Technologies was approved. Each of the participating academic societies started considering the    establishment of IT Archives. | 
            
            
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              | 2005 | 
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              September 7 | 
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              The Committee for Arrangement of    IT Archives was established. | 
            
            
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              October 24 | 
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              The Information and Media Technologies    Editorial Board was established. | 
            
            
              | 2005 | 
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              Until the end of 
                December | 
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              Drafts of major documents were    drawn up (requests to authors, explanation for readers, international    announcements). The details on the issues from J-STAGE were created. The content of articles from each of the academic societies was    created and modified. Compiled papers for Vol. 1, No. 1 were selected. | 
            
            
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              | 2006 | 
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              January to 
                February | 
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              Explanations and requests to authors    of compiled papers in Vol. 1, No. 1 were sent. A    list of compiled papers in Vol. 1, No. 1 was created. | 
            
            
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              March to April | 
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              PDF files of compiled papers in    Vol. 1, No. 1 and data on it were made and compiled. They    were submitted to the IMT secretariat. | 
            
            
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              May | 
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              Confirmations and checks were    conducted. | 
            
            
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              June 1 | 
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              Vol. 1, No. 1 was uploaded to    J-STAGE for a check. | 
            
            
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              June 15 | 
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              Vol. 1, No. 1 was released to the    public. |