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By Lynne Robinson
Posted on: 2/18/2013 12:00:00 AM... Defining the data challenges associated with building the materials innovation infrastructure at the core of the U.S. Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) was the focus of an intersociety scoping session organized by TMS and ASM International during the Materials Science & Technology 2012 Conference (MS&T’12). The effort drew on the perspectives of members from a wide range of professional societies representing the diversity of materials science and engineering (MSE) disciplines Their collective insights have been compiled into a report recently released by TMS and ASM. The full report is available at this link.
“This report represents an important step forward in the conversation surrounding interdisciplinary collaboration, as it identifies the primary categories of data associated with MSE—particularly from the structural materials perspective,” said George Spanos, TMS Technical Director. “It also explores the degree to which these categories of data are being actively shared across fields, and considers some key data management issues.”
The 2012 event built on the momentum of an intersociety MGI scoping session convened by TMS at MS&T’11, and was planned in coordination with an MGI workshop led by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in May 2012.
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Table 1. (Click on image to enlarge.)
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Table 2. (Click on image to enlarge.)
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The MGI, announced in June 2011 by President Barack Obama, is a multi-agency initiative designed to create a new era of resources, infrastructure, and policy that support U.S. institutions in discovering, manufacturing, and deploying advanced materials at an accelerated pace with significantly reduced costs. This ambitious undertaking will only be possible, noted Spanos, through the cooperative efforts of four foundational groups—government, industry, and academia, with professional societies playing a leading role in fostering the necessary climate of collaboration.
“A core tenet of the MGI is that cross-organizational and interdisciplinary collaboration will yield better results than isolated efforts,” said Spanos. “The TMS/ASM collaboration is an excellent example of that. It allows these two organizations to utilize their respective strengths in a coordinated manner to make faster progress towards building the materials innovation infrastructure. Additionally, bringing together their networks of professional society contacts models the collaboration called for by the MGI. This can then be extended to the members of these organizations to encourage similar approaches.”
Based on a recommendation in the 2011 scoping session report to “develop a language and taxonomy for data collection and sharing,” the 2012 scoping session focused on identifying primary categories of data associated with MSE—with an emphasis on structural materials—and assessing the current states of sharing primary data and tools. “The report presents a list of data categories (Table 1.) that scientists and engineers should be aware of when they are seeking to work with and understand structural materials data,” said Spanos. “It also provides background information on these categories (Table 2.), including an assessment of the maturity of data sharing efforts in these areas. This is important information to individuals and organizations who wish to fill in the gaps, in terms of data sharing efforts, or to start new initiatives.”
Spanos noted that the information presented in the 2012 scoping session report is intended to catalyze broader efforts across MSE disciplines. He added that TMS specifically plans to build and expand on the results of the report as it progresses toward its strategic goal of “being the recognized home for and advocate of materials and manufacturing innovation.”
“In addition to developing resources and venues for convening the MSE community on these topics,” Spanos said, “TMS will use the report’s insights to inform development of existing resources for data sharing and collaboration.” These TMS projects include continued enhancement of the Cyberinfrastructure Portal and 3D Materials Atlas.
Bolstering these efforts, said Spanos, is the continued collaboration of professional societies, including TMS and ASM, in convening the field and developing resources to overcome barriers to collaboration. “As the MGI continues to stress the importance of data sharing and collaboration across different fields, it is critical to initiate the interdisciplinary conversations needed to make this happen,” he said. “The 2012 scoping session report contains the collective input of scientists, engineers, and data experts from various disciplines and membership in some 20 different professional societies. The report is both an example of the needed collaboration among these experts, as well as a resource that identifies and maps some of the key data management issues within MSE and its allied fields.”
Editor’s Note: This article was excerpted from a feature scheduled to appear in the April 2013 issue of JOM.
Lynne Robinson is a news and feature writer with TMS.
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