Towards MatCore: A Unified Metadata Standard for Materials Science

Jane Greenberg; Pámela Bóveda-Aguirre; John Allison; Pietro Asinari; Maria Chan; Anand Chandrasekaran; Elif Ertekin; Emmanouel Garoufallou; Giulia Galli; Paolo Giannozzi; Feliciano Giustino; Gerhard Goldbeck; Hendrik Heinz; Arthi Jayaraman; Vincenzo Lordi; Kristin A. Persson; Gian Marco Rignanese; Aidan Thompson; Eric Toberer; Scott McClellan; Ellad B. Tadmor

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-81974-2_1

Towards MatCore: A Unified Metadata Standard for Materials Science

Jane Greenberg
, Pámela Bóveda-Aguirre
, John Allison
, Pietro Asinari
, Maria Chan
, Anand Chandrasekaran
, Elif Ertekin
, Emmanouel Garoufallou
, Giulia Galli
, Paolo Giannozzi
, Feliciano Giustino
, Gerhard Goldbeck
, Hendrik Heinz
, Arthi Jayaraman
, Vincenzo Lordi
, Kristin A. Persson
, Gian Marco Rignanese
, Aidan Thompson
, Eric Toberer
, Scott McClellan

Ellad B. Tadmor

Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics

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1 Scopus citations

Abstract

The materials science community seeks to support the FAIR principles for computational simulation research. The MatCore Project was recently launched to address this need, with the goal of developing an overall metadata framework and accompanying guidelines. This paper reports on the MatCore goals and overall progress. Historical background context is provided, including a review of the principles underlying successful core metadata standards. The paper also presents selected MatCore examples and discusses future plans.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Metadata and Semantic Research - 18th Research Conference, MTSR 2024, Revised Selected Papers
Editors	Michalis Sfakakis, Matthew Damigos, Emmanouel Garoufallou, Athena Salaba, Christos Papatheodorou
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages	3-14
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Print)	9783031819735
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-81974-2_1
State	Published - 2025
Event	18th Research Conference on Metadata and Semantic Research, MTSR 2024 - Athens, Greece Duration: Nov 19 2024 → Nov 22 2024

Publication series

Name	Communications in Computer and Information Science
Volume	2331 CCIS
ISSN (Print)	1865-0929
ISSN (Electronic)	1865-0937

Conference

Conference	18th Research Conference on Metadata and Semantic Research, MTSR 2024
Country/Territory	Greece
City	Athens
Period	11/19/24 → 11/22/24

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© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2025.

Keywords

Data Sharing
FAIR Data
Materials Science
Metadata
Open Data

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Greenberg, J., Bóveda-Aguirre, P., Allison, J., Asinari, P., Chan, M., Chandrasekaran, A., Ertekin, E., Garoufallou, E., Galli, G., Giannozzi, P., Giustino, F., Goldbeck, G., Heinz, H., Jayaraman, A., Lordi, V., Persson, K. A., Rignanese, G. M., Thompson, A., Toberer, E., ... Tadmor, E. B. (2025). Towards MatCore: A Unified Metadata Standard for Materials Science. In M. Sfakakis, M. Damigos, E. Garoufallou, A. Salaba, & C. Papatheodorou (Eds.), Metadata and Semantic Research - 18th Research Conference, MTSR 2024, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 3-14). (Communications in Computer and Information Science; Vol. 2331 CCIS). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-81974-2_1

Towards MatCore: A Unified Metadata Standard for Materials Science. / Greenberg, Jane; Bóveda-Aguirre, Pámela; Allison, John et al.
Metadata and Semantic Research - 18th Research Conference, MTSR 2024, Revised Selected Papers. ed. / Michalis Sfakakis; Matthew Damigos; Emmanouel Garoufallou; Athena Salaba; Christos Papatheodorou. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2025. p. 3-14 (Communications in Computer and Information Science; Vol. 2331 CCIS).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Greenberg, J, Bóveda-Aguirre, P, Allison, J, Asinari, P, Chan, M, Chandrasekaran, A, Ertekin, E, Garoufallou, E, Galli, G, Giannozzi, P, Giustino, F, Goldbeck, G, Heinz, H, Jayaraman, A, Lordi, V, Persson, KA, Rignanese, GM, Thompson, A, Toberer, E, McClellan, S & Tadmor, EB 2025, Towards MatCore: A Unified Metadata Standard for Materials Science. in M Sfakakis, M Damigos, E Garoufallou, A Salaba & C Papatheodorou (eds), Metadata and Semantic Research - 18th Research Conference, MTSR 2024, Revised Selected Papers. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 2331 CCIS, Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, pp. 3-14, 18th Research Conference on Metadata and Semantic Research, MTSR 2024, Athens, Greece, 11/19/24. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-81974-2_1

Greenberg J, Bóveda-Aguirre P, Allison J, Asinari P, Chan M, Chandrasekaran A et al. Towards MatCore: A Unified Metadata Standard for Materials Science. In Sfakakis M, Damigos M, Garoufallou E, Salaba A, Papatheodorou C, editors, Metadata and Semantic Research - 18th Research Conference, MTSR 2024, Revised Selected Papers. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. 2025. p. 3-14. (Communications in Computer and Information Science). doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-81974-2_1

Greenberg, Jane ; Bóveda-Aguirre, Pámela ; Allison, John et al. / Towards MatCore : A Unified Metadata Standard for Materials Science. Metadata and Semantic Research - 18th Research Conference, MTSR 2024, Revised Selected Papers. editor / Michalis Sfakakis ; Matthew Damigos ; Emmanouel Garoufallou ; Athena Salaba ; Christos Papatheodorou. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2025. pp. 3-14 (Communications in Computer and Information Science).

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