This report describes the activities carried out within task collecting Translation case studies (by compiling the EMMC Translation case template and using the EMMC Translators guide), analysing the progress and results and describing the gained experience. Efforts were especially spent to find cases of translation carried out by or for Small Medium Enterprises (SME).
The preparation of this report was supported
by the funded EU project EMMC-CSA, Grant Agreement No. 723867.
The development of the European Materials & Modelling Ontology (EMMO) has gained a lot of interest among the different stakeholders of EMMC,
due to its great potential as an enabler for connecting scientific data and models in a semantic way. However, in order for people to start using it, tools and examples
from real user cases are essential.
The objective of this document is to provide tools for working with EMMO and show a real user case on how EMMO may be used to enable vertical and horizontal
interoperability and thereby enable people to start using EMMO.
This documentation contains three parts; updates of EMMO, tools for working with it, and a user case application demonstrating how EMMO can be used to achieve
vertical and horizontal interoperability.
Authors:
Jesper Friis
Francesca Lønstad Bleken
Afaf Saai
Bjørn Tore Løvfall
(all SINTEF)
The preparation of this documentation has received funding via the EMMC-CSA Project
from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme
under Grant Agreement No 72386
Authors:
Jesper Friis and Bjørn Tore Løvfall (SINTEF), Emanuele Ghedini (UNIBO),
Gerhard Goldbeck (GCL),
Georg Schmitz (ACCESS),
Adham Hashibon (FRAUNHOFER IWM)
The preparation of this documentation has received funding via the EMMC-CSA Project
from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme
under Grant Agreement No 72386
Several storyboards have been developed for the video series on the economic training for Translators, Maturity model, the Business Decision Support System (BDSS)
and EMMC Case Studies refering to Task “Enhance the visibility of materials modelling possibilities to industry, in particular SMEs” of the EMMC-CSA working programme.
The major outcome is a series of several videos, related to economic training concepts for Translators, to the Maturity model and BDSS
and a number of Case Studies, available on https://emmc.info/emmc-case-studies/.
All the videos are publicly available on the EMMC YouTube channel
https://www.youtube.com/c/european-materials-modelling-council.
Authors
Luca Bergamesco (POLITO)
Alexandra Simperler (GCL)
Davide Di Stefano ( ANSYS-GRANTA )
The preparation of this report has received funding via the EMMC-CSA Project
from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme
under Grant Agreement No 72386
This event has received funding via the EMMC-CSA Project
from the European Union’s Horizon 2020
Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No 72386
“Training material for standards in software development and where to find it”
Authors
Kurt Stokbro (SYNOPSYS)
Gerhard Goldbeck, Alexandra Simperler (both GCL)
Erich Wimmer, Volker Eyert (both MDS)
The preparation of this documentation has received funding via the EMMC-CSA Project
from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme
under Grant Agreement No 72386
On November 6-7, 2018, the EMMC organised the “IntOP2018: EMMC-CSA Workshop on Marketplaces and Interoperability”. This workshop took place at Fraunhofer IWM in Freiburg, Germany.The goal of the workshop is to bring together main actors developing next generation online materials science collaboration platforms including calculated and measured data repositories to foster discussions and collaboration.
For more information on the workshop – please visit the event-page!
Please find below the report on this workshop compiled by Gerhard Goldbeck and Alexandra Simperler (Goldbeck Consulting Limited):
Successful software for materials modelling has an expected lifetime of many decades. This long-term nature requires a sound legal and business foundation: the ownership of software must be clearly established and the license models need to be carefully thought through to ensure a sustainable development and maintenance of the software and impactful exploitation by both academic and industrial end-users. Different business models carefully need to be considered when developing a strategy for long term sustainability of software and sustainment of the operation.
As background, the White Paper provides an overview of materials modelling software market, considering different segmentations (by value chain and by type of modelling) and briefly discusses market dynamics. It is, however, not an extensive market analysis.
Furthermore, the fundamental aspects of software sustainability and sustainment are described, based on literature and previous reports published by the Research Data Alliance and Software Sustainability Institute. In that context, Business Models are discussed, with a detailed analysis of different Revenue Models.
Based on the above background analysis, the status of materials modelling software is presented with respect to different sustainment attributes (Users and Communities, Product Management, Software development and maintenance, Revenue Generation). The findings are based on a workshop and surveys carried out by the EMMC during 2018. Finally, the thoughts and recommendations shared by Software Owners (SWOs) during the evidence gathering are summarised.
The main findings of the White Paper are:
The EMMC releases the EMMC Roadmap 2018 for Materials Modelling and Informatics.
This roadmap originated from the outcome of the EMMC International Workshop 2017 and
several EMMC events like focused workshops, expert group meetings and surveys
by collecting views on what materials modelling developments are required in order
to respond to the application needs of the European industry.
This EMMC-CSA White Paper provides a basis for the standards of modelling software development and addresses areas such as method description, assumptions, accuracy and limitations; testing requirements; issue resolution; version control; user documentation and continuous support and resolution of issues.
The document is based on the work already carried out in the context of the EMMC to drive the adoption of software quality measures, and to ensure sustainable implementation of this EMMC initiative. Given the high level of sophistication of each of the developments which solve particular aspects of the multi-physics/chemistry spectrum of materials modelling, the industrial usefulness of individual achievements requires integration into larger software systems. Thus, guidelines and standards are needed, which will enable the exploitation of these codes.
The major outcome are guidelines for academic software developers creating materials modelling codes. In many cases, design decisions taken at an early stage have unforeseeable consequences for many years ahead. In this context, the white paper gives academic researchers a framework, which paves the way for successful integration and industrial deployment of materials modelling. This goal is achieved by addressing a range of topics including model descriptions and software architectures, implementation, programming languages and deployment, intellectual property and license considerations, verification, testing, validation, and robustness, organization of software development, metadata, user documentation, and support.
In version 2.0 an appendix with “Online resources to development of scientific software” has been added.
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