Materials Data Infrastructure: A Roadmap for Enabling Storage and Sharing of Data in the Materials Community

虽然所有材料研究人员都在研究过程中生成数据，但仍然缺乏以公开访问的方式存储和共享这些数据的资源。该奖项支持一项研究，以了解材料研究社区对存储和共享材料数据的基础设施的需求。PI将组建一个材料科学、计算和数据科学专家团队，就社区的努力和需求的现状以及研究界和其他利益相关者（如联邦资助机构）的前进道路进行会面、讨论并提出建议。研究的结果将是一份书面报告，将向广大社会公开。这项研究将涉及一个重要的领域，这是许多讨论的主题，包括许多会议和讲习班。支持材料数据存储和共享的基础设施的需求是明确的，并且在最近与联邦资助研究成果共享相关的要求中再次强调。这项研究将为该领域的专家提供一个独特的论坛，以评估当前的技术水平，并提炼社区的需求和提出可行的建议。材料数据的存储和共享对社区具有广泛的潜在影响，如许多文件所述，包括国家科学院关于集成计算材料工程的研究（2009年）和总统的材料基因组全球竞争力倡议（2011年）。PI团队一直处于材料创新的最前沿，特别是在社区对材料数据访问的需求方面。这项工作得到了土木，机械和制造创新部门，材料研究部门和物理部门的广泛支持。这项研究将广泛传播，并有可能在实地产生重大影响。

While all Materials researchers generate data in the course of their research, there remains a dearth of resources for the storage and sharing of this data in a publicly accessible way. This award supports a study to understand the Materials Research community's needs related to infrastructure for the storage and sharing of Materials data. The PIs will assemble a team of experts in Materials Science and Computational and Data Sciences to meet, discuss, and make recommendations regarding the current state of the community's efforts and needs, and paths forward for both the research community and other stakeholders such as federal funding agents. The outcome of the study will be a written report, which will be made publicly available to the community at large. The study will address an important area which has been the topic of much discussion, including numerous meetings and workshops. The need for an infrastructure to support the storage and sharing of Materials data is clear, and has been reemphasized in recent requirements related to the sharing of outcomes from federally funded research. This study will provide a unique forum for experts in the field to convene to assess the current state of the art as well as distilling the community's needs and presenting actionable recommendations. The storage and sharing of Materials data has broad potential impacts to the community, as outlined in numerous documents including the National Academies study on Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (2009), and the President's Materials Genome Initiative for Global Competitiveness (2011). The PI team has been at the forefront of Materials Innovation, in particular with respect to the the community's needs for access to materials data. The work has broad support, from the Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation, Division of Materials Research, and the Division of Physics. The study will be broadly disseminated, and has the potential for significant impact in the field.