1. Taking stock of database 'standards' activities Some topics for discussion Mike Newton JTC1 SC32N1640

2. W3C XML XML Schema (RelaxNG?) RDF SPARQL............ XML database?

3. Open Document Format XML representation Supports database access Uses SQL statements but no reference (only JDBC)

4. Java JDBC4 (RowID) JDO (+ query language) J2EE - entity beans (+ query language) J3EE (3 parts) - persistence (+ query language)

5. OMG UML MOF, XMI CWM (metamodel for SQL) - IMM ODBMS

6. Eclipse Data Tools Platform model base (including database, SQL, SQLXML)

7. Open Grid Forum WS-DAI (Web services – data access and integration) WS-DAIR (relational data), WS-DAIX (XML data) WS-DAIO (object data), WS-DAIF (file data) WS-DAI-RDF(S) SPARQL WS-DAI-RDF(S) Ontology Access https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/projects/dais-wg http://www.sigmod.org/sigmod/record/issues/0603/p48- column-melton-eisenberg.pdfhttp://www.sigmod.org/sigmod/record/issues/0603/p48- column-melton-eisenberg.pdf

8. Dublin core Metadata for values