Links to related work
The Materials Data Centre (MDC) is concerned with the preservation of experimental materials test data. It aims to be aligned with and complementary to the projects, facilities, and databases that already serve the materials community. There are, and have been, many initiatives in the engineering materials sector that aim to improve data capture and conservation (primarily of properties data), and some of those on which the MDC expects to build include the following:
Economics and Logistics of Standards-compliant Schemas and ontologies for Interoperability - Engineering Materials Data—a CEN/ISSS Workshop concerned with the viability of developing schemas and ontologies derived from procedural testing standards. It aims to investigate the viability of standards-compliant schemas and ontologies in the context of broader community actions intended to address systems interoperability and promote the capture and conservation of experimental data in the materials sector.
Exchangeable Materials Data Representation CODATA task group established to support scientific research and education and that has direct interests in MatML and ISO 10303. Members of the TG regularly author papers the CODATA Data Science Journal
MatML - a schema for materials property data first developed at NIST and available from MatML Schema. Related schemas that incorporate specific test types include NMC MatML and MatDB Schema.
ISO TC184/SC4 - ISO Technical Committee responsible for ISO 10303. Key ISO 10303 specifications include ISO 10303-235 (materials properties specification) and ISO EXPRESS (IS0 10303 implementation language). Background information available at Wikipedia - ISO 10303
Product Modelling Incubator Group - a W3C incubator concerned with developing ontologies for product data (including materials). Very closely aligned to ISO 10303. Good, pragmatic approach to developing ontologies, attempting to integrate with related ontologies (units, for example), and focus on ontology 'ownership'. The W3PM Wikiis very informative.
Economics and Logistics of Standards-compliant Schemas and ontologies for Interoperability - Engineering Materials Data - a CEN/ISSS Workshop concerned with the viability of developing schemas and ontologies derived from procedural materials testing standards. It aims to investigate the viability of standards-compliant schemas and ontologies in the context of broader community actions intended to address systems interoperability and promote the capture and conservation of experimental data in the materials sector.
VAMAS TWA10 - a VAMAS technical working area concerned with promoting copmputerized formats for materials data. Although as described at VAMAS - Completed Technical Working Areas TWA 10 is no longer active, there is a body of very useful information still available at VAMAS TWA10 WWW Home Page, such as NMC MatML.
ONTOLOG—a collaborative work environment for science professionals contributing to the realization of a Semantic Web of data. With its focus on standards and ontologies, the proceedings of the OntologySummit2009 Symposium and its Communique are particularly interesting from the MDC perspective.
