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Material Measurement Laboratory

Office of Data and Informatics

Projects/Programs

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MGI goals

Materials Informatics

Ongoing
To develop the need data infrastructure and informatics tools, NIST is focusing on three areas: data curation, data infrastructure, and data access. Data curation efforts include efforts to develop a phase-based materials ontology to ensure that the data is represented in a semantically
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METIS

Ongoing
A Metrology Exchange to Innovate in Semiconductors

The NIST Chemistry Webbook

Ongoing
Intended Impact It is part of NIST's mission to distribute Standard Reference Data to scientists, engineers, educators, and the general public. The NIST Chemistry WebBook is intended to help fulfill NIST's mission by distributing such data over the Internet. Objective Develop a web site

NIST Materials Resource Registry

Ongoing
The MRR is a comprehensive inventory of high-level data collections, repositories, databases, tools, software, and services useful to materials research and design but located anywhere in the world. Its specialization for Materials Science is in the domain-specific metadata and vocabulary it can

Ontologies and Interoperability in Evolutionary Comparative Analysis

Completed
Intended impact Nearly all scientists who regularly use online resources on genes, proteins and genomes make use of comparative data to advance biomedical research. For instance, researchers often make useful inferences by comparing human genes (as well as proteins, reactions, interactions, pathways
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Research Data Framework (RDaF)

Ongoing
What is the Research Data Framework? A map of the research data space: who, what, where, why, when? A dynamic guide for the various stakeholders in research data to understand best practices for research data management and dissemination A resource for understanding costs, benefits, and risks
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