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Heading to FEMS EUROMAT 2025

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Are you going to be at the FEMS EUROMAT 2025 meeting next week?

The 18th European Congress and Exhibition on Advanced Materials and Processes will run from Sunday 14–Thursday 18 September 2025 in Granada, Spain. The meeting and exhibition will cover a whole range of topics, including materials characterisation, testing and mechanical properties, modelling and sustainability.

Gerhard will be attending this meeting, so come along, have a chat and learn more about the work that we do.

He will be representing the European Materials Modelling Council (EMMC), and will be giving the keynote talk as part of the “Artificial intelligence, modelling and data science in advanced alloy and process design” sessions on Monday 15 September at 9.20–10.20am. His talk will be entitled: EMMO Ontology enabling AI-based innovative advanced materials development: the CoBRAIN Knowledge Base for Hardmetal Thermal Spraying Coatings.

A second presentation will also take place on Thursday 18 September at 2.30–4.30pm within the “Digital materials: rapid materials, experiments, simulation workflows, ontologies and interoperability” session. This second talk will be entitled: EMMO: an ontology based on universal materials science concepts.

The EMMC works across Europe in the area of development, validation, adoption and industrial exploitation of materials modelling with a strong focus on digital tools and data, fostering interoperability, and standardisation so enterprises can become more sustainable, competitive and innovative.

EMMO — formally the Elementary Multiperspective Material Ontology — is a top-level ontology framework for materials, their properties, structures, and processes.

In addition, Gerhard is happy to discuss any of the work that we do, like here at Goldbeck Consulting, our European projects, such as BatCAT, and our work at Semantic Materials.

If you are interested in attending FEMS EUROMAT 2025, you can register here.

Acknowledgement

This work that will be presented at this meeting has received funding by the EU Horizon research and innovation programmes under GA Nos. 952869 (nanoMECommons), 862136 (OntoTrans), 953167 (OpenModel) and 101092211 (CoBRAIN).

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Easy-MODA: Simplify and standardise simulations

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Within materials science, there is often the need to combine lots of data and models to facilitate innovation and standardise approaches. One method is to use Easy-MODA, a free web tool that helps researchers document and register the complex modelling workflows they use.

Workflows often combine physics-based models (like quantum simulations) and data-driven models (such as machine learning) to predict material properties, safety, and sustainability. Easy-MODA ensures that these workflows are clearly documented, making them FAIR. Easy-MODA forms part of the Enalos Cloud Platform.

Easy-MODA was described in a recent paper published in Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal that highlighted its key aspects and explained the primary function and benefits of using such a system. The method has also been highlighted in a recent Nanopinion article.

Easy-MODA is supported by the CEN Workshop Agreement on Materials modelling – Terminology, classification and metadata (CWA 17284:2018). CEN, provides a platform for the development of European Standards and other technical documents in relation to various kinds of products, materials, services and processes.

Easy-MODA: Simplifying standardised registration of scientific simulation workflows through MODA template guidelines powered by the Enalos Cloud Platform

was written by Panagiotis D. Kolokathis, Nikolaos K. Sidiropoulos, Dimitrios Zouraris, Dimitra-Danai Varsou, Dimitris G. Mintis, Andreas Tsoumanis, Francesco Dondero, Thomas E. Exner, Haralambos Sarimveis, Evgenia Chaideftou, Martin Paparella, Fotini Nikiforou, Achilleas Karakoltzidis, Spyros Karakitsios, Dimosthenis Sarigiannis, Jesper Friis, Gerhard Goldbeck, David A. Winkler, Willie Peijnenburg, Angela Serra and Antreas Afantitis.

Easy-MODA-paper

Or to view the paper, click here.

A version of record of this work is available here.

CHADA training now available

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Training for the new CHADA has now been published and is available.

CHADA – CHAracterization DAta – is an approach used for the definition of terminology, classification and metadata for materials characterization methods. The method aims to provide a standard structure capable of representing all materials characterization data.

CHADA was originally developed in 2019, however a new version has now been developed that benefits from a recently updated CEN Workshop agreement, Materials characterization – Terminology and structured documentation.

The training provides a modular CHADA template and details how diagrams can be produced that are compatible with standard business process model and notation.

After completing the training, users should be able to produce general workflows that are fully understandable by humans and that support machine-processable implementations.

Full details of the training materials are available.

 

Acknowledgement: This work has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme under Grant Agreement No 952869 (NanoMECommons). Additional financial support was provided by the HSBooster CSA project.

 

 

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EMMO 1.0.0 released

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We are pleased to announce the 1.0.0 release of the Elementary Multiperspective Material Ontology (EMMO). This release is a major milestone in a multidisciplinary effort to develop a standard representational framework for the materials and manufacturing sectors, and a culmination of more than seven years of development and collaboration by many projects within the EMMC community.

EMMO overcomes issues of other ontologies in rigorously representing the multi-scale nature of materials, the causal nature of interactions, and the strong connection between material properties and metrology. Furthermore, its novel “Perspectives” approach enables multiple views of the world to co-exist and enrich each other, for example enabling a microscopy image to be represented as an object, as data and as a structural representation of a material.

This collaborative work was led by Emanuele Ghedini from the University of Bologna, Jesper Friis from SINTEF, and Gerhard Goldbeck from Goldbeck Consulting.

Further details about EMMO and the release can be found on EMMO GitHub main page and in the release notes.

Announcing the Characterisation Methodology Domain Ontology (CHAMEO) Release v1.0.0

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We are delighted to announce the release of the Characterisation Methodology Domain Ontology (CHAMEO) v1.0.0.

As part of the NanoMECommons project, GCL has been developing this EMMO-based ontology as a general framework for digitalisation of complex characterisation workflows. This framework is also at the core of the recently updated CEN Workshop Agreement: Materials characterization – Terminology and structured documentation.

CHAMEO provides a machine-readable reference for the characterisation terminology and metadata, and a clear structure to the items that are required for documentation of characterisation experiments and the related data processing. To learn more and read about the latest release. visit the CHAMEO website.

 

Acknowledgement: This work has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme under Grant Agreement No 952869 (NanoMECommons)

 

 

New CEN Workshop Agreement: Materials characterization – Terminology and structured documentation

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Event announcement: Workshop on materials characterisation, data standardisation and digitalisation

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Workshop on materials characterisation, data standardisation and digitalisation

20 November, Homerton College, Cambridge, UK (Hybrid)

Come and discuss FAIR data and FAIR materials characterisation protocols to support reproducibility, collaboration and faster uptake of new characterisation methodologies.

As part of the NanoMECommons project, GCL has been developing an EMMO-based, Characterisation Methodology Domain Ontology, known as CHAMEO, as a general framework for digitalisation of complex characterisation workflows.

This framework is also at the core of the updated CEN Workshop Agreement standard on “Materials characterisation — Terminology and structured documentation”.

This upcoming workshop will be a great opportunity to discuss standardisation, the CHAMEO, its industrial applications and implementation in a protocol documentation app, developed together with Fraunhofer IWM.

For more information and to register for this (free) event, visit the NanoMECommons registration page.

Update: See our photo gallery of the event here. Photo credits: Gerhard Goldbeck and Vikki Cantrill, GCL.

 

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Homerton College, Cambridge, UK

 

CEN Workshop and review

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This morning, Gerhard chaired a CEN Workshop as part of its kick-off meeting.

The workshop focused on the revision of CWA 17815:2021, entitled “Materials characterisation – Terminology, metadata and classification”. This work is based on insights from the NanoMECommons project that we are taking part in.

The CEN workshop aims to establish a common language (definitions and vocabulary) for materials characterisation and modelling. It aims to update a previous CEN Workshop Agreement on the same topic. Our work on the Characterisation Methodology Ontology (CHAMEO) will underpin the updates to provide a machine-readable reference for the characterisation terminology and metadata, and a clearer structure to the items that are required for documentation of characterisation experiments and the related data processing. The documentation of materials modelling, which was the topic of another CWA, were also discussed.

CEN, the European Committee for Standardization, is an association that brings together the national standardization bodies across 34 European countries. It provides a platform for the development of European Standards and other technical documents in relation to various kinds of products, materials, services and processes.

 

A photo of a introductory slide from a presentation for a NanoMECommons review meeting event 18 January 2024, Madrid

Harmonising materials modelling and characterisation

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Outcomes from two current EU-funded projects that Goldbeck Consulting are involved in — NanoMECommons and OntoTrans — have been presented and discussed with attendees as part of a joint NMBP-35 workshop in Madrid.

The NMBP-35 workshop, combined under the umbrella of the European Materials Characterisation Council (EMCC) and European Materials Modelling Council (EMMC), formed part of a broader, 3-day meeting that incorporated a general assembly and a project review meeting for NanoMECommons.

A photo of Pierluigi Del Nostro and Georgios Konstantopoulos sat hosting an event at the NanoMECommons review meeting 18 January 2024, Madrid.

There was significant interest from the community in improved data and knowledge management, harmonising materials modelling and characterisation.

With numerous projects, both old and new, actively using the characterisation data standard for materials, CHADA, and the template for the standardised description of materials modelling, MODA, we look forward to continued strong collaborations in the context of EMCC and EMMC.

Supported by the NanoMECommons project, we will work together to shape a new CEN Workshop Agreement for updating CHADA and MODA based on recent ontology developments.

 

Working Group consultation now open

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Goldbeck Consulting is involved in proposing a new working group within the Research Data Alliance (RDA). The proposed topic is “Harmonised terminologies and schemas for FAIR data in materials science and related domains”.

The proposal is currently under community review, and feedback and comments are encouraged. Detailed information about the group, including its objectives and work plan, is available here.

To read more and comment, visit the RDA’s case statement page. The review phase runs until 3 February 2024.