Semantic Materials Workshop meeting 2024
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
Credit: Vikki Cantrill, GCL

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)



