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Have you already discovered our publications page?

Here we will share overview publications on the topics of the MaterialDigital platform. This should make it easier for interested parties to get started around the digitization of materials. Also feel free to take a look at our forum, where we now have areas for publications, including more in-depth topics in individual PMD work areas.

Nadine Golowin

Industry 4.0 ensures more sustainability in production

Current Bitkom study shows the need for digitization in Germany, the high relevance of Industry 4.0 and its impact on sustainability, especially in terms of CO2 emission savings. While large companies have taken on a pioneering role, medium-sized businesses have a lot of catching up to do.

Happy easter!

Dear MaterialDigital Community,

we wish you and your families a happy Easter and peaceful holidays.

Your PMD Team

Nadine Golowin

Newsletter 8

Dear colleagues of the MaterialDigital community,

we are very pleased to present you the eighth newsletter of the Platform MaterialDigital (PMD)! The year 2022 has started with many tasks, big goals and high motivation.

Besides the further developments of the PMD, we are constantly working on making the connection more straightforward and effective for the community. Relevant questions are: What information needs to be made available? Where and how can everyone gets involved or inform yourself at an early stage to be able to connect to PMD when the time comes?

PMD general assembly on March 17th, 2022

Dear community,

Thank you for your interest and participation in our first assembly. In our download area you will find the PMD presentation held, as well as the slides of the academically funded projects as they were shown in the event.

Until next time!

Katharina Weinberger

MSE 2022 - Extended deadline for Lecture & Poster submission: 15 March 2022

27-29 September 2022 Hybrid Congress - Darmstadt (Germany) & Online In the frame of Topic M “Modelling and Simulation” we are organizing the Symposium M04: “Digital Materials: Experiments, simulation workflows, ontologies and interoperability”. In this symposium, we call for an open discussion and exchange about the recent technical and scientific challenges involved in developing an interoperable representation of materials and processes. These include recent developments of ontologies, materials data schemas and software solutions that allow representation and integration of workflows, processes, and materials in a digitalized manner. We invite you to submit an abstract until March 15th

Nadine Golowin

PMD Plenary Meeting

On March, 17th 2022, the platform MaterialDigital will hold its first plenary meeting for the entire community (plenary meeting will be in German)! Join us and learn more about the current status of the MaterialDigital platform and its already connected projects. During our breakout sessions on the topics of ontologies, workflows and community, you can actively participate and discuss working issues with us. To collect relevant topics from the community, you can share topics and questions in advance in our forum. We look forward to your involvement and participation, the PMD Team

Nadine Golowin

MaterialDigital brochure

The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has published a brochure specifically on the topic of MaterialDigital. Here you will not only find information on the innovation platform MaterialDigital and an interview with our spokesperson Prof. Dr. Peter Gumbsch on digitization, but also a detailed presentation of all academically led projects of the first funding round with technical information. Take a look at the brochure and learn more about the exciting world of materials digitization.

Nadine Golowin

BMBF veröffentlicht Eckpunktepapier zur Materialforschung (german only)

Strategische Neuausrichtung der Förderung eingeläutet

Am Donnerstag hat das Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) ein Eckpunktepapier zur Förderung der Materialforschung veröffentlicht. Das Papier steht für eine strategische Neuausrichtung der Förderung mit dem Ziel, die internationale Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der deutschen Materialforschung unter Berücksichtigung aktueller Technologietrends und durch neue Förderformate zu sichern.

Das Eckpunktepapier sieht vor, dass sich zukünftige Materialentwicklungen unter dem Dach der Förderung des BMBF stärker an den politischen Leitzielen Nachhaltigkeit und Ressourcenschonung orientieren müssen. Die Einsparung von Energie, Wasser und Rohstoffen sowie der Ersatz eingeschränkt verfügbarer, gesundheits- oder umweltbedenklicher Materialien, spielen eine zunehmend wichtigere Rolle. So können die Nachhaltigkeit von Produkten erhöht und die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit von Unternehmen gesteigert werden.

Nadine Golowin

MSE 2022

MSE 2022 27-29 September 2022 Hybrid Congress - Darmstadt (Germany) & Online

In the frame of Topic M “Modelling and Simulation” we are organizing the Symposium M04: “Digital Materials: Experiments, simulation workflows, ontologies and interoperability”. In this symposium, we call for an open discussion and exchange about the recent technical and scientific challenges involved in developing an interoperable representation of materials and processes. These include recent developments of ontologies, materials data schemas and software solutions that allow representation and integration of workflows, processes, and materials in a digitalized manner. We invite you to submit an abstract not later than 28 February 2022.

Nadine Golowin

EOSC Webinar

The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) deals with the harmonization of research results across Europe. The project is hosting a virtual webinar on February 23, especially for interested people from Germany. Have you always wanted to know what the EOSC is about, how it can help you and how you can support it? Then this webinar is just for you. After all, we all benefit from Open Science.

Nadine Golowin

Happy New Year!

The MaterialDigital platform wishes you a healthy new year. Stay healthy and look forward with us to a successful and exciting 2022!

Nadine Golowin

Newsletter 7

Dear Platform MaterialDigital Community,

The year is coming to an end. Time to pause and look back. A lot has happened at the platform in the past year and we have made a lot of progress in all areas.

The community is growing and we welcomed our academic projects to the platform in spring. One by one, the projects have started their work and are getting more and more involved with the platform. Within PMD, we have expanded our working groups and have now established a community working group in addition to workflows, ontology and IT architecture. All working groups have an area in the forum and will report news, discussions, ideas and comments with you.
© PMD Schaltkreisbaum

It's christmas time

The DGM has a digital advent calendar on its site again this year. We from MaterialDigital were allowed to open the advent calendar with a contribution. In the first door we show how Christmasy our ontology of the tensile test can be. Have we made you curious? Then take a look.

Nadine Golowin

IWM workshop on "AI Methods for Fatigue Behavior Assessment and Component Life Prediction"

The Institute for Mechanics of Materials (IWM) is hosting an online workshop on "AI Methods for Fatigue Behavior Assessment and Component Life Prediction" on November 24th. Many of the presenters are members of the PMD or affiliated projects. Exciting presentations around Artificial intelligence, digitalization and materials modeling for better lifetime predictions await you. Please have a look at the website and register for the workshop.

Nadine Golowin

Innovation Dialog „Industry 4.0 – MaterialDigital“

Industry 4.0 and artificial intelligence are current key topics in the development of modern materials technology and in the design of corresponding industrial processes.

By using the potentials from digitalization and especially artificial intelligence, new opportunities are opening up to meet future requirements with regard to material and material developments and efficient production processes.

Based on the funding initiative "MaterialDigital" launched in 2019 by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), we would like to discuss this topic together with you for the development of sustainable data structures, software solutions and ontologies for materials science and materials engineering and cordially invite you to the innovation dialog "Industry 4.0 - MaterialDigital".

Heike Fliegl

© MaterialDigital

MaterialDigital platform: Driver of digitalization in material science

In July 2019, KIT launched the innovation platform MaterialDigital in cooperation with six scientific institutions across Germany. With the initialization of the platform, the cooperation partners aim to establish a material data space as well as uniform standards in material digitalization. An interim report.

Nadine Golowin

Newsletter 6

Digitalisation in the field of materials science and materials engineering and in consequence the platform MaterialDigital are met with more and more interest. The community is growing steadily. More than 1000 people are now registered on our website, which we are continuously revising and extending. In this newsletter we would like to give you an outlook on possible connection points with the platform as well as a summary of past events.

Karliczek: Eine starke, digitale Materialforschung als Grundlage für Innovationen in Deutschland vorantreiben

BMBF unterstützt die Digitalisierung der Materialforschung in einer ersten Förderrunde mit 26 Millionen Euro bis 2024

Am heutigen Donnerstag startet das Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) die Initiative MaterialDigital, um die Digitalisierung der Materialforschung in Deutschland voranzutreiben. 13 geförderte Verbundprojekte aus der ersten Förderrunde nehmen nun ihre Arbeit auf. Hierzu erklärt Bundesforschungsministerin Anja Karliczek:

„Wir brauchen in Deutschland eine starke Materialforschung als Innovationstreiber, die die Chancen der Digitalisierung für sich nutzt. Denn die Basis einer technologischen Innovation ist oftmals das Vorhandensein eines geeigneten Materials – sei es Metall, Kunststoff, Glas, Keramik oder Beton.

Nadine Golowin

Call for contributions for special issue on Virtual Materials Design

Virtual materials development is an emerging field that aims at the provision of digital twins that can be connected in a modular library in powerful workflows. Such workflows need to combine different computational methods for different scales such as DFT calculations on the quantum level, MD simulations on the atomistic level and FEM on the continuum scale, and have to run on a wide spectrum of computer applications from mobile phones to high-performance computers.

Interested to contribute? Further information can be found on the journal page.

Heike Fliegl

BMBF call MaterialDigital2 - handout

From now on you can view and download the current handout of the platform MaterialDigital accompanying the call for proposals of the BMBF in the download area.

Nadine Golowin

Outline template for the BMBF call for proposals MaterialDigital2

Registered users of the MaterialDigital platform can now download the outline template for the BMBF call for proposals MaterialDigital2 in the download area. Interested parties are asked to note that the outline template differs from the template of the previous call for proposals MaterialDigital and that the old template cannot be used! The submission deadline for the outline proposal of the two-stage procedure is 1 July 2021.

Nadine Golowin

MaterialDigital Youtube-Channel

The MaterialDigital platform is now also represented on YouTube. Here you will find video recordings of our webinars and workshops, tutorials and much more. We will start with recordings of our internal ontology onboarding and the information shop 2.0.

Nadine Golowin

Information workshop 2.0 BMBF call MaterialDigital for industry-led consortia

In cooperation with the project management organization, the MaterialDigital platform is offering an information event on 22.04.2021 for all those who are planning to participate in the MaterialDigital call and would like to optimize their outline with regard to the possible connection and integration of PMD. Please register for the event on the PMD website if you are interested. The presentations will be recorded and made available online after the event.

Nadine Golowin

Newsletter 5

Dear Platform MaterialDigital community, We hope you have all had a good start to the new year. 2021 is an exciting year for the MaterialDigital platform, not only because of the new BMBF projects currently starting, but also because of a new call for proposals within the funding programme. In addition, one of the member institutes of our consortium is celebrating an anniversary. Enclosed we give you an overview of current developments at PMD.

Nadine Golowin

BMBF call for proposals MaterialDigital for industry-led consortia

With the publication of the new call for proposals for industry-led consortia within the framework of the MaterialDigital funding programme on March 23rd, the BMBF has launched the next round of projects. Funding is to be provided for projects that represent a particularly industry-oriented perspective in terms of both content and technology and that can contribute this to the platform in the future.

Nadine Golowin

© BAM

150 years of BAM, we congratulate!

BAM, one of our consortium institutes, is celebrating its 150th anniversary and we, as the MaterialDigital platform, extend our warmest congratulations. As one of the oldest material science institutes in Germany, BAM has not only had a strong influence on the material sciences, it is also still at the forefront when it comes to ushering the material sciences into the digital age. As part of the 150th anniversary, there will be a symposium on 4 March from 15:30-17:30 on the topic of "Trust in future technologies". Register for this and take part, more information and events can be found on the anniversary page.

Nadine Golowin

© Fraunhofer IWM

Relate material data: Designing data structures, integrating data islands

On 3 March 2021, the Workshop MaterialDigital format will be continued virtually on a smaller scale. Experts from industry and academia will address the questions of how materials data and information from different sources and of varying nature and quality can be related to each other and which hurdles have to be overcome in the process. The objectives are to improve the informative value of materials data for assessing the functionality and performance of materials and components, to reduce the effort and the need for new data to be generated or to create completely new bases for decision-making. And ultimately, this integration of data and data islands should not remain a one-off action, but should be transformed into a value-added process. Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM: Online Workshop MaterialDigital Relating material data: Designing data structures, integrating data islands Time frame: Wednesday, 3 March 2021, 10:00-15:00 hrs.

Nadine Golowin

Newsletter 4

Dear Platform MaterialDigital community, an extraordinary year is coming to an end, in which special challenges had to be mastered for all of us, including us as PMD team. This year, many hardworking hands were involved (most of them virtually) in the development of the platform MaterialDigital (PMD) and were able to achieve a lot despite some challenges and a large number of construction sites. We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone involved for their work and efforts. At the end of the year, we would like to give you an overview of what we have worked on this year and how it will continue in 2021.

Nadine Golowin

Further education on ontologies

Ontologies play a central role in digitization. But what do we mean by ontologies, how are they structured, why are they so important?For a better understanding of these and other questions, we recommend a Lecture on Knowledge Graphs from FIZ Karlsruhe to all users. The lecture is free of charge and in English.If you only want to learn more about ontologies, you can access the following links.

Nadine Golowin

QPTDat Workshop FAIR Research Data in Plasma Medicine.

On October 28 to 29, 2020, the BMBF-funded joint project Quality assurance and linking of research data in plasma technology - QPTDat hosts the virtual workshopFAIR Research Data in Plasma Medicine.The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers in the field of plasma medicine with research data management experts to discuss requirements and possibilities for research data management in accordance with the FAIR principles.

Heike Fliegl

© Wendelin Detemple, FIZ Karlsruhe

CCDC/FIZ Webevent

A second joint interactive session is planned for October 7th, where the FIZ will discuss your requirements and priorities for a common interface that will enable advanced searches and other services across both databases. The joint interactive session is planned as an open, guided discussion to gather your requirements and identify some use cases that will help us prioritize the development of the required functionality.

Heike Fliegl

© Wendelin Detemple

Survey and Webinar: Searching across the ICSD and CSD

Since mid-2018, the CCDC and FIZ Karlsruhe have been offering the crystallographic community a joint depot, which standardizes the deposit of crystal structures for inorganic and organic structures. Scientists currently find further information on many crystallographic structures in the two cured databases Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) and Inorganic Crystal Structure Database (ICSD) which will be currently linked to the common repository, so that users can be directed to the two databases for further information.

Heike Fliegl

Newsletter 3

Dear users of the MaterialDigital platform, A lot has happened worldwide in the last few months. The MaterialDigital platform (PMD) was also surprised by the Corona pandemic and as a result switched its cross-organizational working methods to a virtual working environment. Despite the difficult conditions, we are pleased with what we have been able to achieve since then: The PMD is taking on more and more shape. Enclosed we give you an overview of our highlights. Information on the PMD's approach, its organisation, upcoming projects and a survey on behalf of NFDI-MatWerk.

Nadine Golowin

Workshop MaterialDigital2020 on the 22th and 23.th April 2020 in Freiburg cancelled because of Covid 19

Because of the current Covid 19 situation the workshop had to be cancelled.

Heike Fliegl

Active participation at the information workshop MaterialDigital on the 09.01.2020

At the headquarters of the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) in Berlin-Steglitz, an information workshop on the "MaterialDigital" call for proposals initiated by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) took place on 09.01.2020. The information workshop was attended by 200 representatives from numerous university and non-university research institutions that intend to participate in the open call for proposals.

Heike Fliegl

Information workshop regarding the BMBF call from the 20.09.2019

The Platform MaterialDigital is offering an information workshop on the 09th of January 2020 in connection with the "Announcement of the BMBF call MaterialDigital". The workshop will take place at the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) in Berlin. We kindly ask interested participants to register. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us: Office of the MaterialDigital platform, Tel.: 0721 608 28950, E-Mail: info@material-digital.de. We look forward to your participation.

Heike Fliegl

Newsletter 2

In the second newsletter, the platform MaterialDigital responds to the current BMBF call for proposals MaterialDigital and points out supporting contents on the website, as well as a workshop on the call for proposals in January 2020.

Markus Niebel

Newsletter 1

In den ersten Plattform-News der Plattform MaterialDigital stellt sich das Vorhaben vor und geht genauer auf die Ziele Gründe und das Vorgehen des Verbundprojekts ein

Markus Niebel

Workshop: Research data management and machine learning

Research data management in engineering sciences is becoming increasingly essential, especially in the materials sciences, as research into new materials is becoming increasingly complex. Storing, exchanging and accessing such amounts of data, including metadata, in a structured manner poses a major challenge. This is where research data management comes into play, the aim of which is to make digital research data accessible and usable.

Heike Fliegl

Informative talk about ontologies

Professor Sack a known expert from FIZ Karlsruhe, shares a talk about ontologies on Twitter.

Heike Fliegl

A material database for plastics - CAMPUS

The CAMPUS plastics information system offers free online datasheets for resins from participating material producers. CAMPUS is a database that offers high quality and comparable material information, restricted to uniform standards.

Heike Fliegl

MaterialDigital is partner at the "Bunte Nacht der Digitalisierung Karlsruhe"

The BMBF innovation platform MaterialDigital participates as a partner in the "Bunte Nacht der Digitalisierung Karlsruhe". The aim of the "karlsruhe.digital" initiative is to make digitisation in Karlsruhe visible and tangible for everyone through the "Colorful Night of Digitisation".

Heike Fliegl

DIN SPEC

DIN SPEC is a possibility to build up and test new standards.

Heike Fliegl

Werkstoffwoche 2019 in Dresden

Within the BMBF technology discussion topic "MaterialDigital", the planned activities of the MaterialDigital platform were presented to a broad audience and discussed in a lively manner.

Heike Fliegl

BMBF call 20.09.2019

The BMBF published on the 20.09.2019 a new call where collaborations with the Platform MaterialDigital are explicitly encouraged.

Heike Fliegl

Start of joint project »Innovation Platform MaterialDigitial«

How will scientific work and product development evolve in the future? How will we share new insights with colleagues, who might work on the other side of the planet? Funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research, the joint project »Innovation Platform MaterialDigitial« has recently been established to pave the way towards a digital infrastructure for material science research data. The objective is to create a virtual materials data space that allows a systematic handling of materials data.

Heike Fliegl