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OAC Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) |
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| Initial Amendment Date: | February 17, 2017 |
| Latest Amendment Date: | November 26, 2021 |
| Award Number: | 1636919 |
| Award Instrument: | Standard Grant |
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Alejandro Suarez
alsuarez@nsf.gov (703)292-7092 OAC Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) CSE Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering |
| Start Date: | February 15, 2017 |
| End Date: | January 31, 2022 (Estimated) |
| Total Intended Award Amount: | $68,200.00 |
| Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $68,200.00 |
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1109 GEDDES AVE STE 3300 ANN ARBOR MI US 48109-1015 (734)763-6438 |
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Ann Arbor MI US 48109-2136 |
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BD Spokes -Big Data Regional I, DMR SHORT TERM SUPPORT |
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| Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.070 |
ABSTRACT
Materials innovation is a pipeline, deriving from a deep understanding and control of material behavior and properties, leading to advanced materials designs that advance economic prosperity, address national and regional energy needs, and bolster national security. Improving this pipeline requires connecting independent but thematically congruent national and regional materials design efforts to align key stakeholders, consolidate diverse materials data expertise, simplify data access, coalesce on topics of data description and interoperability, enhance and ensure the quality of datasets, and deploy scalable data services to support materials researchers. The Midwest Big Data Spoke (MBD Spoke) for Integrative Materials Design (IMaD) connects researchers in industry, universities, and government to the people and services needed to easily find, access, and use data, tools, and services for materials design. The Midwest is the ideal place for such a program. Many major national materials design efforts funded by DOE, NIST, and NSF as part of the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) operate in the Midwest, and the Midwest is home to major manufacturing industries that depend critically on materials innovation for their continued competitiveness.
The technical work of IMaD will involve integration of software and services from across the Midwest and beyond, including the Materials Commons, the Materials Data Facility, NIST Materials Resource Registry, and Citrine Informatics, to enable smooth flow of software and data among these different systems. For example, integrated authentication provided by Globus Auth will enable access to different components with common credentials (e.g., institutional credentials), and integration of Globus transfer will allow for rapid and reliable exchange of large datasets. Common schemas and metadata terms will be developed and deployed to permit cross-system searching and display of information. Materials data from partners across the Midwest and beyond will be loaded into the Material Data Facility to permit easy discovery and access. Concurrently with these and other development activities, a series of workshops and meetings will be convened to engage academic, government, and industry participants in defining requirements for, and making use of, the integrated system for materials design.
This award received co-funding from the Math and Physical Sciences Directorate (MPS) Division of Materials Research (DMR).
PROJECT OUTCOMES REPORT
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A goal of the Materials Genome Initiative is to establish the Materials Information Infrastructure. The Midwest Big Data Hub (MBDH) Integrative Materials Design (IMaD) Spoke project attempted to advance this integrating efforts of a number of Universities with the aim to 1) easily find and access well-curated materials data resources through user-friendly interfaces and programmatic interfaces; 2) integrate and run a variety of materials-specific computational tools and share data between various data services; and 3) access and leverage common data services and APIs across the in the broader materials informatics community. IMaD hosted numerous workshops and educational events for the participants and the broader technical community to better understand data challenges, educate the broader community on available resources and grow the materials data community.
The University of Michigan DOE-Funded PRISMS Center has established the Materials Commons, an advanced electronic lab notebook, collaboration platform and public data repository which has a sophisticated user interface for data and metadata entry and usage.
In addition to participating in all workshop and educational activities, University of Michigan Materials Commons IMaD efforts focused on ensuring that the Materials Commons was interoperable with a wide range of data services and software. An improved Materials Commons interface was developed for Globus data transfer services to move large datasets.
Lessons learned in this project will help direct future activities to broaden the interest within the materials community in sharing information; developing Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable (FAIR) data infrastructures; and federating the materials infrastructure. An important development led, in part, by members of IMaD was the establishment of the Materials Research Data Alliance (MaRDA) a community network focused on developing the open, accessible and interoperable materials data that will fuel the Materials Genome Initiative.
Last Modified: 03/25/2022
Modified by: John E Allison
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