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This report describes the state of the research and practice in the areas of metadata management systems. Open source and industrial products are presented and compared. Thereout we identified functional and non-functional requirements relevant for the TEAM project. Project co-funded by the European Commission under the “Information Society Technology” Programme, Framework Programme 6. D5: Report describing State-of-the-Art in Metadata Management March 2007 Versioning and Contribution History Version Date Modification reason Modified by 0.10 17/01/2007 Initial version Roman Schmidt 0.20 23/01/2007 Integration of ICCS contribution and first parts of EPFL’s contribution Roman Schmidt 0.25 25/01/2007 Integration of Jena and Joseki from ICCS (forgotten in the previous version) Roman Schmidt 0.30 30/01/2007 Integration of TUM and FZI contribution; non-functional requirements by EPFL Roman Schmidt 0.35 05/02/2007 Minor corrections and comments Roman Schmidt 0.40 06/02/2007 Functional requirements Roman Schmidt 0.50 21/02/2007 Modification of TOC, introduction, definitions, metadata for software components Walid Maalej 0.70 25/02/2007 Review, minor corrections, comments, unification and unifications, metadata scenarios in SE, CHIME. Walid Maalej 0.80 01/03/2007 Minor corrections, conclusions, first version of the discussion section. Roman Schmidt 0.90 16/03/2007 Integration of review comments Roman Schmidt 0.92 17/03/2007 Dublin Core and competition of table overview Walid Maalej 0.94 18/03/2007 References corrections Roman Schmidt 1.0 19/03/2007 Final version Roman Schmidt This document has been produced in the context of the TEAM Project. The TEAM project is part of the European Community's Sixth Framework Program for research and development and is as such funded by the European Commission. All information in this document is provided "as is" and no guarantee or warranty is given that the information is fit for any particular purpose. The user thereof uses the information at its sole risk and liability. For the avoidance of all doubts, the European Commission has no liability is respect of this document, which is merely representing the authors view. © PLANET, FZI, ICCS, TUM, EPFL, CIM, INTRAINTL, LIPSZ, TRT, TXT Page 2 of 56 D5: Report describing State-of-the-Art in Metadata Management March 2007