1. National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) and
Introduction of
National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
and
Materials Data Platform Center (DPFC)
Kou Amano, Mineharu Suzuki, and Hiroyuki Naito
Materials Data Platform Center
Research and Service Division of
Materials Data and Integrated System
National Institute for Materials Science
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2. Tsukuba: Science City Universities University of Tsukuba ……
National Institutes
NIMS
AIST: NI of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
KEK: High Energy Accelerator Research Organization
JAXA: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
 29 National Institutes
Private Sector
Research Centers
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3. NIMS Chronology (http://www.nims.go.jp/eng/nims/history.html) 1956
National Research Institute for Metals (NRIM) established under auspices of the former Science and Technology Agency.
1966
National Institute for Research in Inorganic Materials (NIRIM) established under auspices of the former Science and Technology Agency.
2001
Merger of NRIM and NIRIM in April, becoming an Independent Administrative Institution called National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS).
First Mid-Term program started.
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4. NIMS
Annual Budget About 22.3 billion yen (Year ended 31 March 2016) 　€1,700M
Workforce 1,538 (As of April 1st, 2017)
Research fields
Materials for Energy and Environment
Nanoscale Materials
Advanced Key Technologies
Research Center
Research Center for Functional Materials
Center for Green Research on Energy and Environmental Materials
Research Center for Magnetic and Spintronic Materials
Research Center for Structural Materials(RCSM)
International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics(MANA)
Research Center for Advanced Measurement and Characterization
Research and Services Division of Materials Data and Integrated System
Research Network and Facility Services Division
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5. NIMS has many facilities and instruments: Database:
- Beamline (Spring-8)
- Electron microscope
- Forging simulator
- Super computer
- etc...
Database:
Basic Properties
Polymer Database (PoLyInfo)
Inorganic Material Database (AtomWork)
Computational Phase Diagram Database (CPDDB)
……….
NIMS Structural Materials Data Sheet Online
Creep Data Sheet (CDS)
Fatigue Data Sheet (FDS)
………..
Engineering
Metallic Material Database (Kinzoku)
・・・・・・・
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6. NIMS enforce scientific information infrastructure and services:
- SAMURAI (researchers directory) (
- MatNavi (
- Researcher self archive
( ,
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7. NIMS enforce scientific information publishing: - Open access journal:
Science and Technology of Advanced Materials (STAM) (
- NIMS Monographs series (
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8. Toward a New Decade of Materials Science by Information Integration
“To create and to accelerate innovations”
・machine learning
・data mining
Data driven materials science
Computational data
Information technology
Physical scientists
Information scientists
Computational
Materials data
Data science
science
Materials scientists
Accumulating data and papers
Materials science
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9. NIMS > MaDIS > DPFC
National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
- Research and Service Division of
Materials Data and Integrated System (MaDIS) (
from Apr
- Materials Data Platform Center (DPFC) (
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10. DPFC missions As "National Data Platform for Materials Science"
- collect data from many instruments in campuses of NIMS
- collect data from other domestic/world-wide
- provide data with high reliability, accessibility and availability
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11. Materials Data Platform Center (DPFC)
- Materials Advanced Database Group
- Materials Data Registry Group*
- Materials Data Curation Group
- Materials Repository Group*
- Materials Integration Group
- Data System Team*
- Publishing Team
- Library Team
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12. DPFC members here Kou Amano, Ph.D (Library Science)
IT product manager, Materials Repository Group
Mineharu Suzuki, Ph.D (Surface Analysis)
Manager of measurement data collection and conversion,
Materials Data Registry Group
Hiroyuki Naito M.S (Information Systems)
Member, Materials and Data and Integrated System, Data System Team
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13. Materials Data Platform at NIMS
Materials Information Integration Data Platform
Data maintained in NIMS
Selection of candidate materials
High quality and reliable database
software tools
Data collection from literatures
Visualization of materials information
Curation by hand
Ai-based text mining technology
Data collection from academic laboratories
Collaboration
Physical model of micro-structure
Institute repository systems
（Digital library)
High performance computer
Industry
Data collection from experimental facilities
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14. DPF System Overview Basic concepts data ⇔ data analysis tools
data discoverable ⇔ scalable data/database search
data use/reuse ⇔ interoperable + extensible
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15. Questions データ管理・権限管理 フォーマット 計測者管理どうしてる（カード？） データ検索どうしている？ 改ざん防止
集中管理or個別管理
成果（文献）管理
データ間リンク
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