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Microstructure and Microscopy Data Workshops

Microstructure Repository and Metadata Workshop: May 13-14

Lehigh University, the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), and the National Science Foundation will be sponsoring a workshop from mid-day May 13, 2019 – May 14, 2019 to address key issues involved in materials data curation, assess current best practices, and develop a plan for establishing future protocols for widely accessible data repositories.   This workshop will serve to create a new microstructures data repository that will enable researchers to share, access, and analyze images and associated data from multiple platforms.  In preparation for this workshop, we held a preliminary meeting last November to discuss potential schema and the curation of metadata as related to electron micrographs and associated data. As a result of this November meeting, we have started construction of the repository as a testbed to evaluate proposed schema.  

 

Agenda for the Microstructure and Metadata Workshop is available here. 

 

NIST/CHiMaD 2019 Materials Microscopy Data (MMD) Workshop: May 15-16

This on-going workshop series will entail group-directed sessions to further refine the preliminary ideas with specific examples as well as build preliminary community-developed best practices to be applied to microscopy data.   Specific discussions will include the following:

  • Developing schemas for prior sample history and sample preparation
  • Defining general schema with minimum requirement for microscopy data that could expand into numerous derivative schemas and vocabularies.
  • Developing and applying specific  "well-known" workflow with schemas for microscopy

Sponsors

Material Measurement Laboratory

Center for Hierarchical Materials Design (CHiMaD)(link is external)

Lehigh University 

National Science Foundation

 

Created March 12, 2019, Updated May 6, 2019