Materials Data Centre

For Ep2DC and Materials Data Centre we are using Codeplex and the Ms-Pl open source license.

Our projects are managed through the Microsoft Institute for High Performance Computing at Southampton. we like to make sure that our projects have some longevity, and possibility for extension throughout their life. As we work closely with Microsoft, we like to use their open source licenses to ensure that any output from us may be used by them in future initiatives. If you want to find out more about Ms-Pl and Ms-RL licenses check out - http://www.microsoft.com/resources/sharedsource/communitysourcelicensing.mspx

Actual end users have been identified as Materials researchers (first year PhD students) working within the Engineering Materials Research Group at Southampton University.  Two have just produced their first publication (ready to submit to ePrints) and accompanying tensile test data.  We are using this for our exemplar case and have chosen a standardised test as an example data set.  Both end users attended a recent project review with David Flanders.  The disproportionate feedback suggested by David on uploading data (e.g. Other alloys tested are......or here's how that data looks) were both thought to be extremely interesting by the users.  Data format issues are also being discussed with the EP2DC team.