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The Materials Commons: A Collaboration Platform and Information Repository for the Global Materials Community

JOM volume 68, pages 2035–2044 (2016)Cite this article

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Accelerating the pace of materials discovery and development requires new approaches and means of collaborating and sharing information. To address this need, we are developing the Materials Commons, a collaboration platform and information repository for use by the structural materials community. The Materials Commons has been designed to be a continuous, seamless part of the scientific workflow process. Researchers upload the results of experiments and computations as they are performed, automatically where possible, along with the provenance information describing the experimental and computational processes. The Materials Commons website provides an easy-to-use interface for uploading and downloading data and data provenance, as well as for searching and sharing data. This paper provides an overview of the Materials Commons. Concepts are also outlined for integrating the Materials Commons with the broader Materials Information Infrastructure that is evolving to support the Materials Genome Initiative.

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This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering under Award #DE-SC0008637 as part of the Center for PRedictive Integrated Structural Materials Science (PRISMS Center) at University of Michigan.

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  1. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA

    Brian Puchala, Emmanuelle. A. Marquis & John E. Allison

  2. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA

    Glenn Tarcea & H. V. Jagadish

  3. School of Information, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA

    Margaret Hedstrom

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Puchala, B., Tarcea, G., Marquis, E.A. et al. The Materials Commons: A Collaboration Platform and Information Repository for the Global Materials Community. JOM 68, 2035–2044 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-016-1998-7

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Keywords

  • Precipitate Size
  • Phase Field Simulation
  • Provenance Information
  • Search Index
  • Metadata Schema