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C O D A T A

Exchangeable Materials Data Representation to support Scientific Research and Education

Approved by the CODATA 25th General Assembly, Beijing 2006

Objective

Why is a Materials Task Group needed at this?  To address vital issues in today’s global environment:

• The onset of a new and rapidly evolving era of materials design research, where today product designers look to develop a material for a particular application rather than use an existing material, e.g.,
• Traditional materials, such as metals, ceramics, and polymers;
• Biomaterials , such as the fabrication of materials and composites to imitate human skin, muscles, bones, and neurons;
• Nanoscience , such as the design and control of self-assembled, functional nanostructures.
• The rise of government funded, large-scale materials programs across the international materials community to enable progress across a broad range of scientific disciplines and technological areas with dramatic impacts on society. 
• In Asia
• National Institute for Materials Research in Japan
• Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science (SYNL) in China
• In Europe
• EU Research Framework Programme (FP6), ‘Nanotechnologies, knowledge-based materials and new production processes’
• In India 
• Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Advanced Materials Research Laboratory
• In US,
• NSF’s Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers (MRSECs)
• DOE’s Nationals Laboratories in Materials Research
• The collaboration and international cooperation for sharing expertise in materials research and education – especially among developed and developing countries –to advance scientific knowledge, to train the next generation of materials scientists, as well as to increase the numbers of highly skilled technical workers and materials professionals.
• The need for materials community to catch up with other scientific communities that are advancing their fields through modern informatics, such as the use of distributed systems of hardware, software, information bases, and expert systems as well as the exponential growth in computing power, communication bandwidth, and data storage capacity.

Objectives:

1. Collect and make public documents providing open standards used in or of potential use for materials data collections and repositories leading to the development of a registry.
2. Promote open standardization and mapping of vocabulary to describe materials data.
3. Contribute to general formats for data exchange and retrieval of materials data.
4. Develop a case study with Task Group members demonstrating Objectives 1 through 3.
   

Future Activities

• Articles in the CODATA Data Science Journal or other refereed Journals; Special issue resulting from International Workshop to be held in early 2008 (see below)
• Hold a major international materials informatics workshop in early 2008 with special emphasis on developing countries as well as the emerging powerhouses of China and India
• Bring the materials community together to exchange background information;
• Hold discussions toward building consensus on materials data collections;
• Take advantage of new access systems within the context of proprietary information.
  

Members

China: 
Dr. Xu Zhihong, Institute of Process Engineering, Email xu@lcc.icm.ac.cn

Europe:
Dr. Hans-Helmut Over, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Institute for Energy, 1755 ZG Petten, , Email hans-helmut.over@jrc.nl

Mr. Craig Seymour, GRANTA Design, Email craig.seymour@grantadesign.com

India:  
Dr. Krishan Lal.  New Delhi-110012, India (Tel: +91 11 2574 1733; EPBAX 2574 6910-12 / Extn 2297 (Office), +91 11 2583 6409 (Home), Fax: +91 11 2572 6938, 2572 6952; E-mail: klal@mail.nplindia.ernet.in )

Japan:

(Chair) Dr. Toshihiro Ashino, TOYO Univ. Regional Development Studies, Email ashino@vaudesir.itakura.toyo.ac.jp

Dr. Yoshio Monma, Kochi University of Technology, Email monma.yoshio@kochi-tech.ac.jp

Korea:  
Dr. Bahng Gun-Woong, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, POBox 102, Yusoung, Daejeon, 305-600, Korea, Phone; +82-42-868-5320  Email: gwbahng@kriss.re.kr

Russia:
Dr. Fedor Kuznetsov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Molodezhnaya Str., 3 Moscow 117926 Russia (Tel: +7 095 1334349 Fax: +7 095 9305559 E-mail: fk@che.nsk.ru, gvi@wdcb.ru, http://www.wdcb.ru/~gvi)

South Africa:
Dr. Steve Rossouw, Cape Technicon University, P O Box 2600, Pretoria 0001, SOUTH AFRICA, +27 21 976 021 Email steveros@iafrica.com

USA:    
(Co-Chair) Prof. Laura Bartolo, )36 Science Research Lab, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242-0001 USA, Phone: +1.330.672.1691, Email lbartolo@kent.edu 

Dr. Ronald Munro, NIST, NIST, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-1070 USA, Phone: +1 (301)975-6127, Email ronald.munro@nist.gov

Prof. Krishna Rajan, Iowa State University, Email krajan@iastate.edu