This paper is dedicated to the main achievements and outputs, developed as a result of a close cooperation between FAO and ICIE. The main result of this cooperation in the area of publishing ISIS databases on the Web is the WWW-ISISPL - a cgi-bin program written in C, which is a rapid Web Application Development tool for publishing CDS/ISIS databases on the Internet. Many of the existing systems based on WWW-ISIS software share a common purpose: the creation of a more efficient, harmonized environment for the input, management and dissemination of metadata. This objective lends itself to the idea of progressive integration under a common software application system such as the integrated library system WebLIS, developed by ICIE as a Library Management Tool and distributed by UNESCO.