Event announcement: Workshop on materials characterisation, data standardisation and digitalisation

October 24, 2024/in Characterisation, Events, NanoMECommons, Standardization /by Vikki Cantrill

Workshop on materials characterisation, data standardisation and digitalisation

20 November, Homerton College, Cambridge, UK (Hybrid)

Come and discuss FAIR data and FAIR materials characterisation protocols to support reproducibility, collaboration and faster uptake of new characterisation methodologies.

As part of the NanoMECommons project, GCL has been developing an EMMO-based, Characterisation Methodology Domain Ontology, known as CHAMEO, as a general framework for digitalisation of complex characterisation workflows.

This framework is also at the core of the updated CEN Workshop Agreement standard on “Materials characterisation — Terminology and structured documentation”.

This upcoming workshop will be a great opportunity to discuss standardisation, the CHAMEO, its industrial applications and implementation in a protocol documentation app, developed together with Fraunhofer IWM.

For more information and to register for this (free) event, visit the NanoMECommons registration page.

Update: See our photo gallery of the event here. Photo credits: Gerhard Goldbeck and Vikki Cantrill, GCL.

Homerton College, Cambridge, UK

CONNECT-NM kick-off meeting Madrid

October 4, 2024/in EMMC, Materials Modelling, NanoMECommons, Ontology, OpenModel, Semantic technologies, Standardization /by Vikki Cantrill

Today, as part of his work with the EMMC, Gerhard is giving a talk at the CONNECT-NM kick-off meeting that is taking place at CIEMAT in Madrid.

Coordination of the European Research Community on Nuclear Materials for Energy Innovation (CONNECT-NM) is a project that answers the Euratom WP call “Cofund HORIZON-EURATOM-2023-NRT-01-04”, for a co-funded European partnership with the aim of boosting innovation in the field of nuclear materials for use in reactors ranging from light water to GenIV, by combining modern digital technologies with materials science practices.

Importantly, the handling of data, including its semantic documentation, is one of the research streams that forms part of the CONNECT-NM project. This project also includes multiscale materials modelling and testing, which makes it relevant to much of the work that Goldbeck Consulting undertakes.

Picture of lectures at the Connect-NM kick-off meeting

Gerhard’s presentation is entitled: European community activities in materials modelling, digitalisation, interoperability and data standards:

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Or, you can view the presentation here.

Acknowledgement: This work has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreements OpenModel (GA n. 953167) and NanoMECommons (GA n. 952869)

Close-up of mechanical gears and cogs. Designed by FreePik

MSE2024 conference Darmstadt

September 24, 2024/in Interoperability, Materials Modelling, NanoMECommons, Ontology, OpenModel, Semantic technologies, Standardization /by Vikki Cantrill

Today, the International Materials Science and Engineering Congress — MSE 2024 — gets underway in Darmstadt, Germany. Organised by the Germany Society for Materials Science, this biennial event covers material science and engineering attracts over 1,200 participants.

Both Gerhard and Otello from GCL are taking part in this event. If you are at the conference, feel free to say hello and talk to Gerhard about the work that we do.

As part of the Digital Transformation session, Gerhard is giving a presentation entitled ‘Interoperable representations of characterisation workflows‘, which gives an overview of how reference frameworks for characterisation workflows have been developed and applied. The presentation highlights work developed as part of the NanoMECommons project.

In addition, Otello is also giving a presentation as part of the same session. His talk entitled ‘Encompassing materials modelling for industry 4.0‘, focuses on materials modelling workflows using semantic technologies that was undertaken as part of the OpenModel project.

Gerhard also gets to chair an open session for NFDI-MatWerk that works to provide a comprehensive and accessible data infrastructure for all those working within the materials science and engineering community.

Gerhard’s presentation:

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Or, you can view the presentation here.

Otello’s presentation:

MSE2024_Roscioni

Or, you can view the presentation here.

Openmodel Exploitation Workshop

September 18, 2024/in Materials Modelling, Ontology, OpenModel, Semantic technologies, Standardization /by Vikki Cantrill

The OpenModel Exploitation Workshop took place yesterday and today (17 and 18 September 2024) in Hamburg, Germany. This two-day event demonstated the potential of OpenModel with ineractive sessions and on platform training with real-world applicatons.

Otello gave a presentation today entitled Describing, retrieving, and executing materials modelling workflows on the OpenModel platform, which gave a behind the scenes look into how to write and ontology from scratch and setting up semantic descriptions of workflows.

The presentation contains work resulting from EU project, OpenModel.

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Or, you can view the presentation here.

SeMats 2024 photo gallery

September 18, 2024/in Digitalisation, Dissemination, EMMO, Materials Modelling, Materials science, NanoMECommons, OntoCommons, Ontology, OntoTrans, Standardization /by Vikki Cantrill

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

Semantics 2024 conference

September 17, 2024/in Materials Modelling, NanoMECommons, OntoCommons, Ontology, OntoTrans, Semantic technologies, Standardization /by Vikki Cantrill

Today, Gerhard is attending the 20th International Conference on Semantic Systems, Semantics 2024, in Amsterdam. If you are at the conference, feel free to say hello and talk to Gerhard about the work that we do.

Gerhard will be giving a presentation entitled Top Level Ontologies: desirable characteristics in the context of Materials Science, which emphasises the core role semantic technologies play in driving innovation and achieving interoperability of data. The presentation forms part of a session dedicated to “Harnessing the Power of Semantic Web Technologies in Materials Science“.

The presentation contains work resulting from several EU projects, OntoTrans, OntoCommons and NanoMECommons.

SeMatS2024-presentation

Or, you can view the presentation here.

The presentation in paper format, has since been included in the proceedings from the conference. Top Level Ontologies: desirable characteristics in the context of Materials Science was written by Pierluigi Del Nostro, Jesper Friis, Emanuele Ghedini, Gerhard Goldbeck, Daniele Toti and Francesco Zaccarini.

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Update: See our photo gallery from the event here. Photo credits: Gerhard Goldbeck, GCL.

OntoTrans project press release

June 21, 2024/0 Comments/in Dissemination, Materials Modelling, OntoTrans, Semantic technologies, Standardization /by Vikki Cantrill

OntoTrans project final video

June 12, 2024/0 Comments/in Dissemination, Materials Modelling, OntoTrans, Standardization /by Vikki Cantrill

Here at GCL, we have been involved with EU Project OntoTrans for the last four years. The project will finish in a few months, but OntoTrans has been a great project to be involved with and several of the project’s developments will continue on after the end date.

Details of new ventures are coming soon, but for now here is a great final video that summarises all of the research and innovation efforts in just a couple of minutes!

Take a look here.

CEN Workshop and review

May 24, 2024/in Characterisation, Materials Modelling, Materials science, Metadata, NanoMECommons, Standardization /by Vikki Cantrill

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

May 13, 2024/in Interoperability, Materials science, Metadata, Ontology, Standardization /by Vikki Cantrill

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.