openmsi: creating an open materials semantic infrastructure

You have reached the future home of the OpenMSI, a National Science Foundation (NSF) DMREF project to Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future. The central theme of DMREF is acceleration of materials design, discovery, and development through the integration of experiments, computation and theory. Focus areas include unifying infrastructure; harnessing data; and educating, training and connecting the R&D workforce. DMREF is the NSF’s primary Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) program and OpenMSI is focused on developing a new architectural concept to handle materials data as streams rather than discrete files to accelerate big data and complex workflows including experiments, compute, data analysis, and FAIR data curation. The project has created OpenMSIStream, a broadly applicable, open-source software package to provide seamless connection of scientific data stores with streaming infrastructure to democratize access to the power of decoupled, real-time data streaming. Success has been measured in acceleration of project data workflows and use of OpenMSI outputs in unrelated projects. OpenMSI also advances a processing-centric, knowledge-graph approach to semantic integration of materials data and workflows through a graphical data model and tools known a OpenMSIModel.