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The '''Object Data Management Group''' ('''ODMG''') was conceived in the summer of 1991 at a breakfast with [[object database]] vendors that was organized by Rick Cattell of [[Sun Microsystems]]. In 1998, the ODMG changed its name from the Object Database Management Group to reflect the expansion of its efforts to include specifications for both object database and [[object–relational mapping]] products.

The primary goal of the ODMG was to put forward a set of specifications that allowed a developer to write [[Software portability|portable]] applications for object database and object–relational mapping products.  In order to do that, the data schema, programming [[language binding]]s, and data manipulation and [[query language]]s needed to be portable.

Between 1993 and 2001, the ODMG published five revisions to its specification. The last revision was ODMG  version 3.0, after which the group disbanded.