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Hello Randy thanks for your answer.

Some thoughts on storing the OPC UA information models:
Right now I’m thinking of saving these models to a XML-Datatype in a relational database, because you can store additional meta data in another table. With this solution, models can be indexed and easily queried. A second solution would be to use a version control system like git with a client-application to upload the models. Metadata could be saved as markdown-files or in JSON-format. This approach needs another system on top, which provides index, and search options.

I think if you just want to save the models, both of the solutions are sufficient. Nevertheless, there are some drawbacks depending on the use case. For example if you want to provide a web frontend with a model editor, XML is not lightweight and you would need to implement sophisticated XQuery Functions on the client-side to parse and edit nodes of XML-files.

For my own personal use case, I want to link meta data information of OPC UA models with meta data of machine learning models in a platform to enrich search and compare functions for retrieving those machine learning models.

I am a PhD student and not involved into any activities of the WG.
How can I stay informed on this topic?

I would appreciate exchanging thoughts on this subject.