Event announcement: Semantic Materials Workshop 2025

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Semantic Materials Workshop 2025

Knowledge Organisation Challenges and Solutions for Chemicals and Materials-Based Industries

Monday 10 November 2025

Homerton College, Cambridge, UK

 

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We’re excited to announce that, following our very popular event last year, the Semantic Materials Workshop will be returning for 2025.

This year’s event will provide a unique opportunity to discuss pertinent topics in knowledge organisation and information integration with subject-matter peers that understand the particular challenges of chemicals and materials domains. A chance to learn from each other’s experiences and discuss with leading academic developers and commercial solutions providers about strategies and next steps in implementation.

This workshop will include a full day of presentations and discussions on the topic of Knowledge Organisation Challenges and Solutions for Chemicals and Materials-Based Industries.

Confirmed speakers include:

Please note:

Attendance at the workshop will be by invitation in the first instance. To make the most of the day, attendance in person is recommended.

We will be releasing full details of the event in early autumn on the Semantic Materials website and through LinkedIn, so be sure to follow. If you are interested in attending, you can register your interest by email.

Acknowledgement:

This event is kindly supported by the DigiCell project and the EMMC.

 

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.

Semantic Materials Workshop report 2024

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Semantic Materials Workshop Report

Semantic data and knowledge management for chemicals and materials industries

A partnership meeting organised by the OntoTrans project

 

Following the success of the inaugural Semantic Materials Workshop meeting that took place at the Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining (IOM3) on 17 April 2024, a short report on the findings from the day has been published. The report covers the need for efficient data management and exchange within materials science, the barriers and benefits of adopting semantic technologies, and directions for the future.

Developing Ontologies in Materials Science

was written by Vikki Cantrill, Anne de Baas, Otello Roscioni, and Gerhard Goldbeck.

To view the report, click here.

A version of record of this work is available here.

 

To read more about the events and presentations from the day click here, or click here to see photos from this event.

 

Acknowledgement: This work has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No 862136 (OntoTrans)

 

Gerhard Goldbeck giving an introductory presentationGerhard Goldbeck giving an introductory presentation Credit: Vikki Cantrill, GCL
Gerhard Goldbeck giving an introductory presentation Gerhard Goldbeck giving an introductory presentation Gerhard Goldbeck giving an introductory presentation The audience at the Semantic Materials Workshop meeting Simon Stier giving a presentation Rachael Huntley giving a presentation Rachael Huntley giving a presentation Photo of the second discussion panel Photo of the second discussion panel Photos of 5 adults taking questions Photo of the second discussion panel Russell Smart giving a presentation Russell Smart giving a presentation The audience at the Semantic Materials Workshop Gerhard Goldbeck giving a presentation Gerhard Goldbeck giving a presentation Networking talks following the meeting Networking after the meeting

Semantic Materials Workshop meeting 2024 photo gallery

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Here is a gallery of photos from the Semantic Materials Workshop meeting held at the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, London, UK 17 April 2024.

Semantic Materials Workshop meeting 2024

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Semantic Materials Workshop

Semantic data and knowledge management for chemicals and materials industries

A partnership meeting organised by the OntoTrans project

 

The inaugural Semantic Materials Workshop meeting took place at the Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining (IOM3) on 17 April 2024, organised in conjunction with the partners from the OntoTrans project.

The IOM3 provided a great, yet quirky, venue for our full day of presentations and discussions ranging from industrial requirements to implementations of semantic data management systems.

We were joined by industrial delegates from Johnson Matthey, Michelin, P&G and BASF; ontology developments and applications in materials from Univ Bologna, SINTEF and Fraunhofer ISC; and solutions from SciBite, Semantic Partners and metaphacts, alongside many others.

OntoTrans partners discussed their ideas to offer consulting services based on Elementary Multiperspective Material Ontology (EMMO) ontologies and proposed a collaborative, industrial consortium to help usher in the era of “active metadata”.

Thank you to all of our speakers and panellists. To see more photos from this event click here. Photo credits to Vikki Cantrill.

Some of our speakers have kindly shared their presentations as a reminder of the day, which may also be of interest to others, see:

Gerhard Goldbeck – Introduction to the Semantic Materials Workshop

Gerhard Goldbeck – Semantic Materials for Industry

Jesper Friis – Semantic Data and Knowledge Management for Chemicals and Materials-based Industries

Russell Smart – Knowledge Generation and Knowledge Modelling

Simon Stier – BIG-MAP, BattINFO & OpenSemanticLab.

 

Gerhard Goldbeck giving an introductory presentation

Gerhard Goldbeck giving an introductory presentation
Credit: Vikki Cantrill, GCL

Networking after the meeting

Networking after the meeting
Credit: Vikki Cantrill, GCL

Acknowledgement: This work has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No 862136 (OntoTrans)

Event announcement: Semantic Materials Workshop

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Semantic Materials Workshop

Semantic data and knowledge management for chemicals and materials industries

A partnership meeting organised by the OntoTrans project

17 April 2024

Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining (IOM3)

297 Euston Road, London NW1 3AD

 

We are delighted to announce our Semantic Materials Workshop.

The success of digital transformation projects towards semantic data management requires a range of skills and partners all working together. At this expert meeting, partners from the OntoTrans project would like to discuss potential collaborations with a wide range of solution providers and interested parties from chemical and materials industries.

This workshop will include a full day of presentations and discussions ranging from industrial requirements to implementations of semantic data management systems.

Attendees will hear about industrial challenges and directions from Johnson Matthey, Michelin and BASF; ontology developments and applications in materials, including batteries from Univ Bologna, SINTEF and Fraunhofer ISC; and solutions from SciBite, Semantic Partners and metaphacts.

OntoTrans partners plan to offer consulting services to build and implement Elementary Multiperspective Material Ontology (EMMO)-based ontologies that enable materials- and chemistry-based industries to reap the benefits of semantic knowledge management at the enterprise level and enter the era of “active metadata”.

Why use semantic data management?

Data management has evolved considerably over the last 30 years. Semantics and semantic technologies enable us to carry out unified analyses of data from different data sources and offer augmented analyses, recommendations and AI orchestration.

Knowledge management systems reflect and maintain enterprise knowledge that can be integrated with knowledge and data beyond the enterprise, which supports open and co-innovation.

Ontologies are used successfully in finance (FIBO ontology), oil and gas production (ISO15926), and bioinformatics (Gene ontology), along with chemistry domain ontologies. However, semantics in the area of materials science and manufacturing is underexploited.

A number of EU projects have contributed to an ontology framework that incorporates fundamental principles and concepts from physics, chemistry and materials science: the EMMO.

The OntoTrans project has built a semantic knowledge system based on EMMO that enables users to represent innovation challenges and connect them to a range of data sources, including data from modelling and simulation.

Please note: This workshop is an invitation-only event.

To make the most of the day, attendance in-person is recommended. Online participation will be limited to presentations only. In-person registration closes Wednesday 3 April 2024.

For further information, or if you are interested in attending this event, please email us.

Click here to see the draft agenda for this event. Note that this agenda and timings are subject to change.

The IOM3 is based in central London. Click here for directions.

 

Acknowledgement: This work has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No 862136 (OntoTrans)

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Innovation Dissemination and Exploitation Manager position (part time)

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You will be working in an intellectually stimulating environment. You will be collaborating with leading researchers from academia and industry throughout Europe. We offer a flexible way of working. The position will be part time (at least 50%) but has potential to grow to full time employment.

The role is home based in the UK (a location in the area of Cambridge/London is preferred) and is paid at a competitive rate according to level of experience.

Please send your application and CV by 30th April 2023 to: gerhard@goldbeck-consulting.com

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Materials 2030 Roadmap draft published

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A wide range of stakeholders in Europe are elaborating a roadmap for “a strong European Materials ecosystem driving the green and digital transition”. We are pleased to have contributed together with EMMC to Part I – Advanced materials – from vision to mission and action and the cross-cutting challenges. In particular, the roadmap proposes future actions to accelerate digitalisation of materials and product innovation highlighting three priorities:
1) Generating new data and knowledge: Develop digital and innovative methodologies for generating materials data and knowledge, including modelling, characterisation, production and testing technologies
2) Documenting data and knowledge: Develop and disseminate a common (standardized) language (ontology) for data exchange and knowledge management
3) Accessing and interogating data and knowledge: Provide reliable and easy access to and interrogation of generated data/information/knowledge
for all stakeholders.

Goldbeck Consulting is involved in a range of projects supporting these actions, in particular in the areas of modelling, characterisation and ontologies.

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Please contact us if you have any questions.