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A project supporting the SRAO application ontology, a hierarchy of academic disciplines that imports subsets of terms from 7 publicly-available ontologies.
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'Computational Materials Science' and 'Materials Informatics' #8

Closed allysonlister closed 6 years ago

allysonlister commented 6 years ago

Source: https://fairsharing.org/biodbcore-001089/

We have Materials Science already as follows materials

Our user has suggested 'Computational Materials Science' and 'Materials Informatics' in addition to what already exists. Both of these terms seem to be broadly referring to the same subject - a computational sub-category of Materials Science. Most of the online defs for Computational Materials Science seem to focus on computational models to aid in the development and improvement of new and existing materials. Definitions for Materials Informatics seem broadly similar, though also seem to be generally broader, including all types of informatics and not just modelling.

What are your thoughts? Should we include both, neither, one of them? Thanks!

allysonlister commented 6 years ago

What would you like to do for this, @Drosophilic ? Thanks!

Drosophilic commented 6 years ago

I don't think we should put both, as that may be too specific. I suggest we use the broader 'Materials Informatics' term for now.

allysonlister commented 6 years ago

Adding Materials Informatics with a definition "Materials informatics employs techniques, tools, and theories drawn from the emerging fields of data science, internet, computer science and engineering, and digital technologies to the materials science and engineering to accelerate materials, products and manufacturing innovations. " sourced from https://doi.org/10.1007/s10845-018-1392-0. It has two parents: Informatics and Materials Science.