MSE 2022
Lecture
28.09.2022
Digital Workflows within the Innovation Platform MaterialDigital
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Dr. Jörg Schaarschmidt

Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

Schaarschmidt, J. (Speaker)¹; Caldeira Rego, C.R.¹; Fliegl, H.¹; Hassani, M.²; Hickel, T.²; Wenzel, W.¹
¹Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen; ²Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH, Düsseldorf
Vorschau
21 Min. Untertitel (CC)

The “Innovation Platform MaterialDigital” (PMD) funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), aims to develop a sustainable infrastructure for the standardized digital representation of materials science and materials engineering. With its partners (KIT, Fraunhofer IWM, Leibnitz IWT, BAM, MPIE), the PMD is committed to build up a materials science data space. To achieve this the PMD provides a prototypical infrastructure for the digitalization of materials implemented by decentralized data servers, standardized data schemas and digital workflows. Standards, methods, and tools developed within the platform are deployed and consolidated within the context of BMBF-funded academic and industrial research projects and made available to the material science community in general. In this context scientific workflows represent a major focus area, represented within the platform by the workflow frameworks pyiron and SimStack. In consequence, the platform is building up a digital library in form of a workflow store along with common standards for the definition and representation of digital workflows. We present the activities of the workflow group and current status and vision for the dissemination of digital workflows via the workflow store within the community.

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