Presentations will also cover geo-spatial projects undertaken as part of the European Union's Fifth Framework. It is critical, however, that all parties understand the content of any electronic commerce message. Metadata registries can provide the underlying support necessary to manage the semantics of electronic commerce transactions. Digital libraries are making increased use of terminology and metadata management. Presentations will cover features of metadata registries and the fundamentals of semantics management that are useful for digital libraries.
Object technologies affect both the content and interfaces for metadata registries.
Presentations will cover the MQS work as well as a demonstration of another OMG standard, the Lexicon Query Service.