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Material Measurement Laboratory /Material Data Division

Data Services and Infrastructure Group

Working collaboratively to maximize efficiency, performance, and impact of data resources and infrastructure.

The Data Services and Infrastructure Group is part of the Material Data Division at NIST. The group provides DevOps (software development and IT operations) expertise to support the NIST Material Measurement Laboratory (MML)'s internally and externally-facing data management needs, including the development, deployment, and management of data infrastructure and software for MML staff. The group works collaboratively with appropriate offices across NIST to maximize efficiency, performance, and impact of data resources and infrastructure.

Projects & Programs

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Classification Methods for the NIST Biorepository

Ongoing
NIST has been archiving biological and environmental specimens, including marine animal and environmental samples, for over 40 years. Currently, these biospecimens are stored at cryogenic temperatures in the NIST Biorepository located at the Hollings Marine Laboratory in Charleston, SC. Various...
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Data Tools for Environmental Metrology

Ongoing
A recent addition to operations in the NIST Biorepository, we seek out places where NIST scientists get bogged down by the complexity of their data. Research at NIST can generated some of the most complex data in the world, at times requiring six months or more of processing to get to the data...
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METIS

Ongoing
A Metrology Exchange to Innovate in Semiconductors

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...

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