CHADA training now available

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Training for the new CHADA has now been published and is available.

CHADA – CHAracterization DAta – is an approach used for the definition of terminology, classification and metadata for materials characterization methods. The method aims to provide a standard structure capable of representing all materials characterization data.

CHADA was originally developed in 2019, however a new version has now been developed that benefits from a recently updated CEN Workshop agreement, Materials characterization – Terminology and structured documentation.

The training provides a modular CHADA template and details how diagrams can be produced that are compatible with standard business process model and notation.

After completing the training, users should be able to produce general workflows that are fully understandable by humans and that support machine-processable implementations.

Full details of the training materials are available.

 

Acknowledgement: This work has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme under Grant Agreement No 952869 (NanoMECommons). Additional financial support was provided by the HSBooster CSA project.

 

 

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EMMO 1.0.0 released

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We are pleased to announce the 1.0.0 release of the Elementary Multiperspective Material Ontology (EMMO). This release is a major milestone in a multidisciplinary effort to develop a standard representational framework for the materials and manufacturing sectors, and a culmination of more than seven years of development and collaboration by many projects within the EMMC community.

EMMO overcomes issues of other ontologies in rigorously representing the multi-scale nature of materials, the causal nature of interactions, and the strong connection between material properties and metrology. Furthermore, its novel “Perspectives” approach enables multiple views of the world to co-exist and enrich each other, for example enabling a microscopy image to be represented as an object, as data and as a structural representation of a material.

This collaborative work was led by Emanuele Ghedini from the University of Bologna, Jesper Friis from SINTEF, and Gerhard Goldbeck from Goldbeck Consulting.

Further details about EMMO and the release can be found on EMMO GitHub main page and in the release notes.

Workshop on Interfacial Properties 2025 photo gallery

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Here is a gallery of photos from Cecam‘s Workshop on Interfacial Properties: Open Questions (28–30 January, 2025) in Daresbury, UK. Photo credits: Otello Roscioni.

Announcing the Characterisation Methodology Domain Ontology (CHAMEO) Release v1.0.0

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We are delighted to announce the release of the Characterisation Methodology Domain Ontology (CHAMEO) v1.0.0.

As part of the NanoMECommons project, GCL has been developing this EMMO-based ontology as a general framework for digitalisation of complex characterisation workflows. This framework is also at the core of the recently updated CEN Workshop Agreement: Materials characterization – Terminology and structured documentation.

CHAMEO provides a machine-readable reference for the characterisation terminology and metadata, and a clear structure to the items that are required for documentation of characterisation experiments and the related data processing. To learn more and read about the latest release. visit the CHAMEO website.

 

Acknowledgement: This work has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme under Grant Agreement No 952869 (NanoMECommons)

 

 

New CEN Workshop Agreement: Materials characterization – Terminology and structured documentation

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Homerton College, Cambridge. Credit: Gerhard Goldbeck

Workshop on materials characterisation, data standardisation and digitalisation meeting 2024 photo gallery

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Here is a gallery of photos from the workshop on materials characterisation, data standardisation and digitalisation meeting held at Homerton College, Cambridge, UK 20 November 2024.

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SeMats 2024 photo gallery

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Here is a gallery of photos from SeMats 2024, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Photo credits: Gerhard Godlbeck, GCL.

 

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Materials Week 2024 photo gallery

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Here is a gallery of photos from Materials Week 2024, Limmasol, Cyprus. Photo credits: Xiran Dong, TUWien and Alex Simperler, GCL.

 

CEN Workshop and review

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This morning, Gerhard chaired a CEN Workshop as part of its kick-off meeting.

The workshop focused on the revision of CWA 17815:2021, entitled “Materials characterisation – Terminology, metadata and classification”. This work is based on insights from the NanoMECommons project that we are taking part in.

The CEN workshop aims to establish a common language (definitions and vocabulary) for materials characterisation and modelling. It aims to update a previous CEN Workshop Agreement on the same topic. Our work on the Characterisation Methodology Ontology (CHAMEO) will underpin the updates to provide a machine-readable reference for the characterisation terminology and metadata, and a clearer structure to the items that are required for documentation of characterisation experiments and the related data processing. The documentation of materials modelling, which was the topic of another CWA, were also discussed.

CEN, the European Committee for Standardization, is an association that brings together the national standardization bodies across 34 European countries. It provides a platform for the development of European Standards and other technical documents in relation to various kinds of products, materials, services and processes.

 

New working group endorsed

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We are pleased to learn that the Research Data Alliance (RDA) has fully endorsed a new working group on the topic “Harmonised terminologies and schemas for FAIR data in materials science and related domains“. This endorsement follows after the proposal was open to community review and feedback earlier in the year.

The working group will formally kick off at the upcoming, fully virtual, 22nd Plenary Meeting of the RDA, which promises a very full and busy programme of events.

The group will offer two specific sessions so that every global region can easily participate. Session one will take place on Wednesday 15 May 2024, 07:00–08:30 UTC, and session two will take place on Thursday 23 May 2024, 14:00–15:30 UTC.

The draft agenda for the sessions is now available with opportunities for all participants to hear talks and provide input on a wide range of topics and interests.

Learn more about the plenary event and register now.