This repository hosts the providers.json file for OPTIMADE that lists reserved database-specific prefixes and URLs to the index databases of all database providers that participate in the OPTIMADE network
Some background:
These names are used in the client on Materials Cloud (https://materialscloud.org/optimadeclient), and may be used directly in other clients as well (now or in the future).
so technically the name for mp is "The Materials Project", so I'd say leave it as-is for now. We might change that in the future and can update accordingly.
Suggested name changes from @nicolamarzari:
Settled by @shyamd (will not be changed). See comment below.
novel materials discovery (NOMAD)
->NOMAD
https://github.com/Materials-Consortia/providers/blob/2673be6705df4f9187fa5c67074e0ec4a5c5ef81/src/links/v1/providers.json#L103 Pinging @markus1978 for an opinion on this.open database of xtals
->Open Database of Xtals
https://github.com/Materials-Consortia/providers/blob/2673be6705df4f9187fa5c67074e0ec4a5c5ef81/src/links/v1/providers.json#L114 Pinging @ml-evs for an opinion on this.Some background: These names are used in the client on Materials Cloud (https://materialscloud.org/optimadeclient), and may be used directly in other clients as well (now or in the future).