The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers working in the field of object oriented databases, to discuss the work which is going on. If you look at the programs of the last object-oriented and database conferences, indeed, there are very few papers on object-oriented databases. Thus, a first aim of the workshop is to test whether there is still someone researching in that field. We would like to discuss whether there is still anything to research and to critically evaluate the current state of the field. Are we satisfied about the reached results? Have all the problems of object-oriented databases been solved, or simply isn't there anyone interested in solving them, since relational DBMSs would never be overcome? Is the future in object-relational DBMSs and in persistent object-oriented languages? Does the web and web-related data open new perspective for object-oriented databases?

The discussion should cover all the aspects of object-oriented databases, ranging from data modeling issues, to implementation issues and practical evaluations of OODBMSs.

Thus, the aim of the workshop is twofold: to discuss the research going on in the object-oriented database field and to critically evaluate object-oriented database systems in terms of their current usage, of their successes and limitations, and their potential for new applications. The workshop will thus consist of a number of presentations of reviewed papers and of discussions on all the questions mentioned above.