Collaborative Research: Disciplinary Improvements: Creating a FAIROS Materials Research Coordination Network (MaRCN) in the Materials Research Data Alliance

材料研究协调网络(MaRCN)将促进和协调公平的数据，并支持国内和国际的开放科学材料研究，弥合材料数据与包括人工智能和机器学习在内的数据密集型方法之间的根本差距。该项目将建立在一系列规划和准备活动的基础上，包括MGI(美国材料基因组倡议)和MARDA(材料研究数据联盟)，这是一个跨越学术界、工业界和出版业利益相关者的社区网络。通过在这些倡议的基础上提出推进材料科学的方法，以允许以新的方式利用数据，MaRCN将能够加快材料设计和部署。该项目将通过推进可再生能源和可持续发展、健康、农业、能源储存、量子计算和先进制造等领域的关键应用来实现多个国家的研究目标。MaRCN将围绕四个总体主题组织其活动：数据、模型、培训和影响。作为数据主题的一部分开展的活动包括连接和调解数据生产者、数据用户、储存库用户和出版商的需求，使在可信储存库中存放和访问数据成为常态。模型主题将推进努力并建立社区，特别关注电子显微镜和X射线科学领域。培训主题活动将包括大量召集会议，包括重点小组和讲习班，以培养和发展熟练掌握公平原则的教育工作者和实践者网络。影响主题将整合和最大化其他主题的有益成果，并积极寻求与项目相关的大量交叉组织协调项目的活动。这一奖项由高级网络基础设施办公室联合数学和物理科学理事会支持。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The MaRCN (Materials research coordination network) will advance and coordinate FAIR data and support Open Science materials research nationally and internationally, bridging the fundamental gap between materials data and data-intensive methods including artificial intelligence and machine learning. The project will build on a range of planning and preparatory activities including the MGI (U.S. Materials Genome Initiative) and MaRDA (Materials Research Data Alliance), a community-based network spanning stakeholders in academia, industry, and publishing. By building on these initiatives to propose ways of advancing materials science to allow data to be leveraged in new ways, the MaRCN will enable the acceleration of materials design and deployment. This project will address multiple national research goals by advancing critical applications in renewable energy and sustainability, health, agriculture, energy storage, quantum computing, and advanced manufacturing.MaRCN will organize its activities around four over-arching themes: Data, Models, Training, and Impact. Activities undertaken as part of the Data theme include connecting and mediating the needs of data producers, data users, repository users, and publishers to make data deposition and access in trusted repositories the norm. The Models Theme will advance efforts and build community with a particular focus on the domains of electron microscopy and X-ray science. Training Theme activities will encompass a large number of convenings, including focus groups and workshops to seed and grow the network of educators and practitioners fluent in FAIR principles. The Impacts Theme will integrate and maximize the beneficial outcomes of the other themes and actively seek to harmonize the project’s activities with a large number of intersecting organizations with which the project is connected.This award by the Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure is jointly supported by the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.