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Semantic Data Management Maturity Survey Report

The first results are in! In September of 2025, Semantic Materials launched their Semantic Data Management Maturity Assessment Service. Part of this service includes a self-assessment survey that enables materials and manufacturing businesses to investigate strengths and weaknesses and alignment with business goals when it comes to implementing effective semantic data and knowledge management systems. […]

BatCAT consortium meeting in Newcastle

Last week, all partners from the BatCAT project met at The Catalyst in Newcastle, UK for a consortium meeting that marked the halfway stage of the project. Representatives from the partner organisations reviewed and discussed progress, exchanged ideas, and charted the course for the project’s next steps. This successful meeting was an opportunity to see […]

Event announcement: Semantic Materials Workshop 2025

  Semantic Materials Workshop 2025 Knowledge Organisation Challenges and Solutions for Chemicals and Materials-Based Industries Monday 10 November 2025 Homerton College, Cambridge, UK   Save the date! 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 […]

PSDI Materials Community Workshop

This week (16 and 17 June 2025), Gerhard Goldbeck is attending a two-day workshop hosted by the Physical Sciences Data Infrastructure (PSDI). The PSDI Materials Community Workshop is taking place in Manchester, UK, and covers a number of topics including: Metadata and standards Electronic research tools and automation Workflows tools and reproducibility Data-driven applications and […]

EMMC2025 conference in Wien

Today, the EMMC 2025 International Workshop — EMMC2025 — kicks off three days’ of events at the University of Vienna, Austria. The workshop takes place every other year and this year the theme is “Accelerated Innovation and Sustainability by a Materials Modelling and Data Ecosystem”. The theme will be looked at from many angles including: […]

Elementary Multiperspective Material Ontology paper out now

Elementary Multiperspective Material Ontology: Leveraging Perspectives via a Showcase of EMMO-Based Domain and Application Ontologies   An article outlining the Elementary Multiperspective Material Ontology (EMMO) has been published in the Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management. This article was written by Goldbeck Consulting, along with colleagues […]