Taking stock of database 'standards' activities

Some topics for discussion

Mike Newton

JTC1 SC32N1640

W3C

• XML• XML Schema (RelaxNG?) • RDF• SPARQL• ............• XML database?

Open Document Format

• XML representation• Supports database access• Uses SQL statements but no reference (only JDBC)

Java

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

OMG

• UML• MOF, XMI• CWM (metamodel for SQL) - IMM• ODBMS

Eclipse

• Data Tools Platformmodel base (including database, SQL, SQLXML)

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.pdf

Dublin core

• Metadata for values