Data & informatics

News and Updates

Two first responders stand at the open back of an emergency vehicle, looking at a computer screen, with firetrucks in the background.

Spotlight: Gathering Intel From Social Media for Emergency Response

June 30, 2022

When someone needs help, fire departments and ambulance crews need to know what the problem is and where to go ASAP. One answer is to use artificial

Smart City Holistic Key Performance Indicators Support Community Benefits

NIST International Collaboration Develops New Framework for Smart Cities and Communities

February 28, 2022

Have you ever wondered what it is about a smart city or community that makes it ‘smart?’ In an international collaboration with Dr. Martin Serrano of the

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Modernizing iEdison: Upgrading the Database for Reporting Inventions

November 4, 2021

The iEdison platform was designed in the 1990’s by the National Institute of Health as a means for awardees of federal funding to report their inventions

Projects and Programs

Trusted AI framework for a new class of Standard Reference Materials and Data with exquisitely characterized uncertainty for billions of properties

Ongoing

A new collaboration between NIST's Human Genomics Team, Mass Spectrometry Data Center, and Information Technology Laboratory to use and develop artificial

This research data lifecycle has six stages: Envision; Plan; Generate/Acquire; Process/Analyze; Share/Use/Reuse; and Preserve/Discard

Research Data Framework (RDaF)

Ongoing

In the past decade, research data have become widely recognized as a critical national and global resource, and the risks of losing or mismanaging research data

A digital object is composed of Data, Metadata, Protocols & Operations, and Persistent Identifiers.

Facilitating the Adoption of the FAIR Digital Object Framework in Material Science

Ongoing

With increasing use of data-driven methodologies, concerns around data discovery, data access, and data interoperability have come to the forefront. Communities

Genome in a Bottle

Ongoing

Consortium hosted by NIST dedicated to authoritative characterization of benchmark human genomes. Sign up for General GIAB and Analysis Team email lists. Public

Publications

NIST Conference Papers Fiscal Year 2020

September 22, 2022

Author(s)

Kathryn Miller, Karen Arcamonte

This Special Publication represents the work of researchers at professional conferences, as reported by NIST employees in Fiscal Year 2020 (October 1, 2019

Network analysis approach to Likert-style surveys

September 2, 2022

Author(s)

Robert Dalka, Diana Sachmpazidi, Charles Henderson, Justyna Zwolak

Likert-style surveys are a widely used research instrument to assess respondents' preferences, beliefs, or experiences. In this paper, we propose and

Leveraging Theory for Enhanced Machine Learning

August 26, 2022

Author(s)

Debra Audus, Austin McDannald, Brian DeCost

The application of machine learning to the materials domain has traditionally struggled with two major challenges: a lack of large, curated data sets and the

NIST Conference Papers Fiscal Year 2021

August 24, 2022

Author(s)

Kathryn Miller, Karen Arcamonte

This Special Publication represents the work of researchers at professional conferences, as reported by NIST employees in Fiscal Year 2021 (October 1, 2020

Software

The NIST Data Alignment Tool

August 12, 2022

The Data Alignment Tool (DAT) was built to assist with the analysis of data used in testing fault detection and diagnostics (FDD) tools and building

Extreme Winds and Wind Effects on Structures

The Engineering Laboratory has an established long-term collaboration with the NIST Statistical Engineering Division in the analysis of extreme wind speeds and

Curated Archive for COVID-19 Research Challenge Dataset (cord19-cdcs-nist)

This GitHub repository contains a downloadable snapshot of National Institute of Standards and Technology's COVID-19 Data Repository, curated from the COVID-19

RECIPE

RECIPE is a FORTRAN program for determining one-sided tolerance limits (in particular, A- and B-basis material property values) for regression models in the

Tools and Instruments

High Throughput (Combinatorial) Screening Tool for Characterization of Thin Film Thermoelectrics as a Function Temperature

High-throughput (combinatorial) metrologies have evolved as a useful approach to rapidly determine the composition-structure-property relationships for novel

Data & informatics

Data and informatics Topics

News and Updates

Spotlight: Gathering Intel From Social Media for Emergency Response

NIST International Collaboration Develops New Framework for Smart Cities and Communities

Modernizing iEdison: Upgrading the Database for Reporting Inventions

Projects and Programs

Trusted AI framework for a new class of Standard Reference Materials and Data with exquisitely characterized uncertainty for billions of properties

Research Data Framework (RDaF)

Facilitating the Adoption of the FAIR Digital Object Framework in Material Science

Genome in a Bottle

Publications

NIST Conference Papers Fiscal Year 2020

Network analysis approach to Likert-style surveys

Leveraging Theory for Enhanced Machine Learning

NIST Conference Papers Fiscal Year 2021

Software

The NIST Data Alignment Tool

Extreme Winds and Wind Effects on Structures

Curated Archive for COVID-19 Research Challenge Dataset (cord19-cdcs-nist)

RECIPE

Tools and Instruments

High Throughput (Combinatorial) Screening Tool for Characterization of Thin Film Thermoelectrics as a Function Temperature

Awards

Ellen Voorhees Wins Ron Brown Excellence in Innovation Award

Aaron Gilad Kusne Named APS Fellow

Robert Hanisch Honored as Fellow of the American Astronomical Society