Community Engagement

The Material Data Division (MDD) is actively engaged in national and international communities to foster high integrity science,  interoperability, and common understanding for the usage of data in driving forward the NIST mission. MDD staff participate in leadership roles and strive to deliver exemplar resources to the NIST community which spans the globe. This listing includes some of the key organizations MDD is involved with:

• Research Data Alliance (RDA)
• Department of Commerce and other federal agencies (NIH, DOE, NSF)
• CENDI - (the Commerce, Energy, NASA, Defense Information Managers Group)
• National Metrology Institutes (NMIs) and Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM)
• CODATA - Committee on Data of the International Council for Science
• NDS - National Data Service