Kadi4Mat: A Research Data Infrastructure for Materials Science

Nico Brandt; Lars Griem; Christoph Herrmann; Ephraim Schoof; Giovanna Tosato; Yinghan Zhao; Philipp Zschumme; Michael Selzer

doi:10.5334/dsj-2021-008

Kadi4Mat: A Research Data Infrastructure for Materials Science

Authors

Nico Brandt Institute for Applied Materials (IAM-CMS), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Straße am Forum 7, 76131 Karlsruhe https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3860-1376
Lars Griem Institute for Applied Materials (IAM-CMS), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Straße am Forum 7, 76131 Karlsruhe https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8093-6356
Christoph Herrmann Institute for Applied Materials (IAM-CMS), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Straße am Forum 7, 76131 Karlsruhe https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8208-4356
Ephraim Schoof Helmholtz Institute Ulm for Electrochemical Energy Storage (HIU), Helmholtzstraße 11, 89081 Ulm https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6821-7263
Giovanna Tosato Institute for Applied Materials (IAM-CMS), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Straße am Forum 7, 76131 Karlsruhe https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5128-4080
Yinghan Zhao Institute for Applied Materials (IAM-CMS), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Straße am Forum 7, 76131 Karlsruhe https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9440-138X
Philipp Zschumme Institute for Applied Materials (IAM-CMS), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Straße am Forum 7, 76131 Karlsruhe https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4821-5719
Michael Selzer Institute for Applied Materials (IAM-CMS), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Straße am Forum 7, 76131 Karlsruhe; Institute for Digital Materials Science (IDM), Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, Moltkestraße 30, 76133 Karlsruhe https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9756-646X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2021-008

Keywords:

research data management, electronic lab notebook, repository, open source, materials science

Abstract

The concepts and current developments of a research data infrastructure for materials science are presented, extending and combining the features of an electronic lab notebook and a repository. The objective of this infrastructure is to incorporate the possibility of structured data storage and data exchange with documented and reproducible data analysis and visualization, which finally leads to the publication of the data. This way, researchers can be supported throughout the entire research process. The software is being developed as a web-based and desktop-based system, offering both a graphical user interface and a programmatic interface. The focus of the development is on the integration of technologies and systems based on both established as well as new concepts. Due to the heterogeneous nature of materials science data, the current features are kept mostly generic, and the structuring of the data is largely left to the users. As a result, an extension of the research data infrastructure to other disciplines is possible in the future. The source code of the project is publicly available under a permissive Apache 2.0 license.

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Published

2021-02-10

Issue

Vol. 20 (2021)

Section

Research Papers

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