Discovering high-quality data has never been easier
Materials Data Facility hosts data (some as large as several terabytes!) and makes it easy to share and access.
Publishing and discovering usable data is hard, but not with MDF
Publishing
If you've ever tried to publish a large dataset, you know what we're talking about. Most infrastructures are just not built for that. At MDF, we created our infrastructure with large datasets in mind. That's why we use Globus for data transfer. There are virtually no limits to how much data you can publish with MDF.
Publishing your data on MDF makes it easy for you to share your work with others. It also helps you reach people within the MDF community via our discovery features. Our discover page includes your data in search queries, so those interested can easily find your work.
Discovering
MDF collects high-quality materials datasets from the community and makes them easily accessible. How do we assure that our data is high quality? We have a curation step where we check that it meets our standards.
There's a lot of data on the internet. The toughest part is making sense of it. That's why we have required metadata for every dataset. This gives every dataset the context needed for people to actually use it.
Acknowledgments
The Materials Data Facility is built with Globus.
CHiMaD Phase I: This work was performed under financial assistance award 70NANB14H012 from U.S. Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology as part of the Center for Hierarchical Materials Design (CHiMaD).
CHiMaD Phase II: This work was performed under the following financial assistance award 70NANB19H005 from U.S. Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology as part of the Center for Hierarchical Materials Design (CHiMaD).