@article{BAYERLEIN2024112603,
title = {PMD Core Ontology: Achieving semantic interoperability in materials science},
journal = {Materials & Design},
volume = {237},
pages = {112603},
year = {2024},
issn = {0264-1275},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2023.112603},
url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264127523010195},
author = {Bernd Bayerlein and Markus Schilling and Henk Birkholz and Matthias Jung and Jörg Waitelonis and Lutz Mädler and Harald Sack},
keywords = {Ontology, Materials science and engineering, Knowledge representation, Reproducibility, Semantic interoperability, Semantic data integration},
abstract = {Knowledge representation in the Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) domain is a vast and multi-faceted challenge: Overlap, ambiguity, and inconsistency in terminology are common. Invariant (consistent) and variant (context-specific) knowledge are difficult to align cross-domain. Generic top-level semantic terminology often is too abstract, while MSE domain terminology often is too specific. In this paper, an approach how to maintain a comprehensive MSE-centric terminology composing a mid-level ontology–the Platform MaterialDigital Core Ontology (PMDco)–via MSE community-based curation procedures is presented. The illustrated findings show how the PMDco bridges semantic gaps between high-level, MSE-specific, and other science domain semantics. Additionally, it demonstrates how the PMDco lowers development and integration thresholds. Moreover, the research highlights how to fuel it with real-world data sources ranging from manually conducted experiments and simulations with continuously automated industrial applications.}
}