One challenge here is the many structural scales and thus the various experimental and numerical methods. In turn, materials’ mechanical and functional properties are determined by their microstructure and thus also by likely changes due to their process and load histories.

The development of a database infrastructure is a community-driven process. To this end, NFDI-MatWerk aims to seamlessly integrate decentralized data and metadata, experimental and numerical workflows, and a materials ontology to maximize interoperability and reproducibility of research data processing. To this end, data use profiles of Participant Projects (PP) from different sub-disciplines are analyzed to identify the most relevant scientific scenarios within MatWerk. The resulting Infrastructure Use Cases (IUCs) help in the continuous community-driven development and review of the infrastructure.

Community Interaction (TA-CI)

• Ensure active participation and lively exchange of ideas, opinions, and experiences among researchers and associated stakeholders in the MSE community
• Provide and conduct education and training for researchers, technical professionals, students.
• Planned TA-CI activities, including creating collaborative platforms, interactive workshops, and annual conferences.

Workflows and software development (TA-WSD)

• Development of a software framework.
• Creation, standardization, and implementation of scientific workflows, automated protocols for experiments, simulation studies, etc.