Computational Materials Data: An Update

Abstract

The June 2011 announcement of the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) by the National Science and Technology Council of the Executive Office of the President [1] spurred a significant amount of activity in the materials science and engineering world on issues related to materials data and data-driven approaches for developing new materials and processing methods. MGI, in many ways, builds on previous U.S. and international efforts to promote the development and use of integrated computational materials engineering (ICME) as a way to accelerate advanced materials discovery and deployment. In April 2012, one of the authors published a guest editorial in this journal [2] describing efforts being undertaken by ASM International to support the goals of the MGI. At that time, ASM had recently announced the launch of a national Center for Computational Materials Science and Engineering Data (CCMSED); the name was changed later that year to the current Computational Materials Data (CMD) Network. Then as now, the objective of the CMD Network is to collect, refine, and disseminate information and resources to assist the MGI/ ICME community with its materials data challenges and needs. Since its launch, the CMD Network has had an active role in a number of collaborative projects, providing materials data management guidance and support. The experience and insights gained in the course of this work, as noted in Table 1, are made available to all on the CMD Network web site [3]. Structural Materials Data Demonstration Project