Working within the context of a range of metadata related initiatives in Australia and elsewhere, the Recordkeeping Metadata Project aims to comprehensively specify and codify recordkeeping metadata in ways that enable it to be fully understood and deployed both within and beyond the records and archives profession.
Fact-based information modeling language (see http://orm.net), relational mapper, and fact-oriented database query/update implementation to replace ActiveRecord, supporting a higher level of schema design abstraction, performance and concurrency.