EMMO: enabling AI-based advanced materials development
The 18th European Congress and Exhibition on Advanced Materials and Processes, FEMS EUROMAT 2025, is now underway in Granada, Spain.
Gerhard spoke to a full conference room with his keynote talk entitled: EMMO Ontology: enabling AI-based innovative advanced materials development: the CoBRAIN Knowledge Base for Hardmetal Thermal Spraying Coatings. This keynote talk formed part of the “Artificial intelligence, modelling and data science in advanced alloy and process design” session with Gerhard presenting the work on behalf of the European Materials Modelling Council (EMMC).
The presentation highlighted the challenges of FAIR data management in materials sciences, experience of an EU project (CoBRAIN) with building a knowledge base from the project data, lessons learnt and ways forward for improving the state of affairs. Much data is lost, so we urgently need to address this issue, otherwise materials science will not be able to maximise the opportunities of AI. A proposed data community effort to develop a ‘data cataloguing standard’ for materials data (a so-called Materials DCAT-AP) was very well received.
Gerhard presenting his talk at the EUROMAT2025 conference
Similar ideas will also be discussed at the forthcoming Research Data Alliance working group meeting on “Harmonised terminologies and schemas for FAIR data in materials science and related domains” on Wednesday 24 September, 11.30am—13.30pm UTC.
The EMMC works across Europe in the area of development, validation, adoption and industrial exploitation of materials modelling with a strong focus on digital tools and data, fostering interoperability, and standardisation so enterprises can become more sustainable, competitive and innovative.
EMMO — formally the Elementary Multiperspective Material Ontology — is a top-level ontology framework for materials, their properties, structures, and processes.
If you are attending the FEMS EUROMAT 2025 meeting this week, Gerhard would be happy to discuss all the projects that we are working on here at Goldbeck Consulting, our European projects, such as BatCAT, and our work at Semantic Materials.
Here is a copy of Gerhard’s presentation today:
Goldbeck_EMMC_EUROMAT2025Or, you can view the presentation here.
Acknowledgement
This work was presented on behalf of the EMMC and has received funding from European Commission under the European Union’s Horizon Research and Innovation programme, GA Nos. 101092211 (CoBRAIN), 101091912 (AID4GREENEST), and 101137725 (BatCAT), and by the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) under the UK government’s Horizon Europe funding guarantee, GA no 10091190 (BatCAT).
