Approaching the era of big data-driven materials science, one crucial step to collecting, describing, and sharing experimental data is the adoption of electronic laboratory notebooks (ELN). At present, most synthesis data are not structured comprehensively , but FAIRmat is offering a solution by developing and operating the open-source software NOMAD. 

In this tutorial, we demonstrate the usage of NOMAD as an ELN which enables the users to generate data following the FAIR principles. We will show how we adopted NOMAD to capture data from synthesis and experiment and make use of an automated data workflow. 

Ian Bird, Technical Coordinator in ESCAPE and Project Lead of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (2008 - 2020): Exascale-era data challenges in Physics & Astronomy

The FAIRmat (https://www.fairmat-nfdi.eu/fairmat/)  and MOSDEF (https://mosdef.org/) consortia have come together to organize a CECAM flagship workshop to address data management challenges in soft matter simulations.

The goal of the virtual pre-meeting is to identify the overarching challenges in this budding discipline, and to effectively prepare for discussing the standardization of simulation data and workflows at the in-person workshop. Representatives from leading data management projects for soft matter simulations will provide overviews of their current capabilities as well as outlooks for the coming year.

The Materials Data Standards workshops, organized by the Beijing Advanced Innovation Center
for Materials Genome Engineering, aim to promote the exchange of opinions on materials
data and materials data standards from the multi-stakeholders and to enable people around
the world to explore the most recent progress on materials data standards, serving as an
important international benchmark for research, quality, safety, and trust on materials data.

The 2nd workshop towards materials data standards will focus on the use cases, facilitation and Infrastructure of materials data after FAIR Principles. 

Access the program and Zoom information here.

The FAIRmat team has recently extended the NOMAD infrastructure to support trajectories and workflows, including classical molecular dynamics simulations. This interactive tutorial will walk users through the new features, demonstrating how to upload data, assess the system composition and equilibration, explore the trajectory metadata, and extract archive entries to perform detailed analyses.

We invite you to an informative webinar on FAIRmat with Claudia Draxl and Christoph Koch from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

This IKZ Berlin and FAIRmat joint winter school invites internationally renowned lecturers to introduce machine learning in materials science and crystal growth for any scientist new to the field. There will be four main sessions:
1. Introduction to ML/AI
2. Data Mining & ML assisted experimenting
3. ML with small data
4. New potentials enabled by ML

The lectures are accompanied by a hands-on tutorial based on the NOMAD AI toolkit.

Susanna-Assunta Sansone, Academic Lead of Research Practice; Professor of Data Readiness, Dep of Engineering Science; Associate Director, Oxford e-Research Centre: FAIR data: no longer optional, but it takes a village!

John R. Helliwell, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry (University of Manchester), Chairman of IUCr and IUCr and Representative to CODATA: Applying the FAIR Principles to Crystallography Data Publication – a use case for DAPHNE4NFDI?

In this online introductory event hosted by NFDI-MatWerk, six subject matter experts will present six different ELNs using illustrative examples. Here, the basic functionalities of ELNs are illustrated using graph and image data from the MatWerk area.

You can exchange experiences with the experts on the following ELNs: eLabFTW, openBIS, PASTA, Labfolder, Chemotion, NOMAD OASIS.

Read more and register here.

The MPCDF "Advanced HPC workshop" (for MPG and NOMAD, in collaboration with Nvidia and Intel) has been scheduled for Nov 22-24, 2022. There will be 1.5 days of tutorials and 1.5 days of "code camp".

Thomas Schäfer of the Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Research will speak about Multi-method, multi-messenger approaches to models of strong correlations in a special FAIRmat seminar in Berlin-Adlershof.

We present a hands-on tutorial on how FAIRmat supports the data lifecycle from planning and running an experiment to collecting and annotating data according to international community standards for searchability, and reuse.

For this purpose, we bring a very simple experiment of a temperature dependent I-V measurement in as an example and let every participant follow us and connect to our central data management services, to view, explore and work with the datasets collected on-the-fly. Participants who want to take part in the interactive session only need a web browser and a free account on our central NOMAD server: https://nomad-lab.eu/prod/v1/.

This meeting is an opportunity for users and interested members of the public to get to know FAIRmat and share their questions and ideas with us. You will hear from representatives in all Areas of FAIRmat as well as some of our current users and at the end of the session there will be an open Q&A.

Nancy Washton, Catalysis Science Group Lead, Physical Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory: Strategy for and psychosocial aspects of realizing FAIR data processes

The 3rd virtual Research Data Day at the Rhein-Main Univerisities is dedicated to virtual infrastructures which support research data management.

This will include the workshop "FAIRes Forschungsdaten Management mit NOMAD" (FAIR research data management with NOMAD) by Markus Scheidgen, FAIRmat's infrastructure coordinator. 

The CHARISMA Raman School 2022 aims to attract Raman scholars and manufacturers from all over the world to get together and exchange information and ideas about the current state of Raman-related research.

The NOMAD Encyclopedia is a web-based public infrastructure that provides this materials-oriented view on the NOMAD Repository & Archive. In this tutorial we will discuss how to navigate the materials space using the Encyclopedia GUI as well as the more advanced tasks which are possible using the Encyclopedia API.

With this event, NFDI4Cat attempts to bring together scientists, researchers and practitioners working to make the move from current research (local vocabularies, unstructured data, different data formats....) to sustainable FAIR research data management and digitalisation. During this event, NFDI4Cat will showcase the latest research and development in research data management for all steps of catalysis research and facilitate further exchange and collaboration on digital catalysis.

The aim of the workshop series is to lay the foundation for a cooperation of users and vendors to work together on making ellipsometry data FAIR, i.e. Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Re-purposable.

The 13th NOBUGS Conference will be held at Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland at September 19-22, 2022. The goal of the NOBUGS (New Opportunities for Better User Group Software) Conference Series is to foster collaboration and exchange between scientists and IT professionals working on software for X-ray, neutron and muon sources from around the world.

This is the first meeting of an initiaitve to organize a series on workshops to reach a consensus on how to annotate the quality of stored data.

Chris Wolverton, Northwestern University: The Phase Diagram of All Inorganic Materials

Welcome to the second International FAIR-DI Conference on a FAIR Data Infrastructure for Materials Genomics (2022) in Shanghai!

11 May, 15:00 CEST Overview Talk by Claudia Draxl
11 May, 15:45-18:00 CEST & 12 May 10:00-12:00 and 16:00-18:00 CEST Hands-on Tutorial by Markus Scheidgen

James A. Warren, Director of the NIST Materials Genome Program: The Next Decade of the US Materials Genome Initiative

Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Bungartz from the Technical University of Munich will give a talk at the FAIRmat colloquium about "Providing Infrastructure for the Infrastructure".

06 April, 15:00 CEST Overview Talk by Sergei V. Kalinin
06 April, 15:45-18:00 CEST & 07 April 10:00-12:00 and 16:00-18:00 CEST Hands-on Tutorial by Luca Ghiringhelli and Luigi Sbailò

Registration and more details are available under https://events.hifis.net/event/323/

09 March, 15:00 CET: Overview Talk by John Henry Scott (NIST)
09 March, 15:45-18:00 CET & 10 March 10:00-12:00 and 16:00-18:00 CET: Hands-on Tutorial by Sandor Brockhauser

09 Feb, 15:00 CET: Overview Talk by Matthias Scheffler
09 Feb, 15:45-18:00 CET & 10 Feb 10:00-12:00 CET and 16:00-18:00 CET: Hands-on Tutorial by Markus Scheidgen

Christoph T. Koch will talk about Ingredients for Effective Computer-augmented Experimental Materials Science.

This lecture will prepare you to use git for bigger projects and teams that use many branches, strategies, and intertwined repositories.

Heinz Junkes will give a talk about FAIRmat at the 18th International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems (ICALEPCS 2021)

We are excited to have leading FAIR data specialist Barend Mons as our first speaker! He will talk about "How to materialise FAIR". Video: https://youtu.be/N4CBAqKQmQs

Talk at the 2021 MRS Spring Meeting | video

Talk at the 2021 MRS Spring Meeting

Claudia Draxl will open the 4th installment of the CECAM Mixed-Gen series on the topic of DataDrivenScience with a seminar titled "From data to knowledge".

Invited talk at the APS March Meeting 2021

Invited talk at the APS March Meeting 2021 

Invited talk at the 3rd EMMC International Workshop

Symposium F.MT07: Data Science and Automation to Accelerate Materials Development and Discovery with a talk by Claudia Draxl about FAIR Data Infrastructures Towards New Horizons for Materials Research

Panel discussion with Claudia Draxl, Matthias Scheffler, and Peter Frensch (Vice President for Research, HU Berlin).

Plenary Talk about FAIR Data Infrastructure and Artificial Intelligence in Materials Science by Matthias Scheffler.