(Invited) Datahub for Energy Materials Network

Abstract

This talk will provide an overview of the DataHUB being built for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Materials Network (EMN). The DataHUB will be a best-in-class data-serving infrastructure, leveraging standard practices to collect, manage, and curate data to accelerate the process of materials discovery, characterization, and commercial deployment of technologies. It will provide open, uninterrupted, easy, and secure access to codes, models, experiments, simulated data, and journal publications produced by all projects within the EMN consortia. A central repository currently does not exist for the EMN projects and studies. Rather, the data are being stored by the principal investigators at their home institutions and are not easily accessible by other users. Moreover, the information is vulnerable to loss, while the opportunities for cross-cutting integration are, at best, limited. By creating a central hub for data storage, discovery, and access, potential duplication of experiments and studies along with other efforts that could delay scientific progress can be avoided. The DataHUB’s short-term objective will be to provide this repository service for data produced by the EMN consortia. The central hub will allow consortia members to focus on the science, research, and analysis while the DataHUB will maintain data security and access, as well as offer a standardized approach to curate the data. The DataHUB will provide autonomy to each consortium for creating the content of the portal and tools for their specific projects. In addition, the DataHUB will be extended to enable seamless integration of multidisciplinary scientific investigations and analyses to address common material challenges spanning all EMNs.