NFDI MatWerk Ontology (MWO)

NFDI-MatWerk aims to establish a digital infrastructure for Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), fostering improved data sharing and collaboration. This repository provides comprehensive documentation for NFDI MatWerk Ontology (MWO) v3.0, a foundational framework designed to structure research data and enhance interoperability within the MSE community. To ensure compliance with top-level ontology standards, MWO v3.0 is aligned with the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) and incorporates the modular approach of the NFDIcore mid-level ontology, enriching metadata through standardized classes and properties. The MWO addresses key aspects of MSE research data, including the NFDI-MatWerk community structure, covering task areas, infrastructure use cases, projects, researchers, and organizations. It also describes essential NFDI resources, such as software, workflows, ontologies, publications, datasets, metadata schemas, instruments, facilities, and educational materials. Additionally, MWO represents NFDI-MatWerk services, academic events, courses, and international collaborations. As the foundation for the MSE Knowledge Graph, MWO facilitates efficient data integration and retrieval, promoting collaboration and knowledge representation across MSE domains. This digital transformation enhances data discoverability, reusability, and accelerates scientific exchange, innovation, and discoveries by optimizing research data management and accessibility.

The ontology’s latest version is always accessible at: mwo.owl.

Ontology metadata

• Title: NFDI MatWerk Ontology.
• Abbreviation: mwo
• Namespace: http://purls.helmholtz-metadaten.de/mwo.
• Prefix: mwo
• Language: OWL
• Repository: https://github.com/ISE-FIZKarlsruhe/mwo
• Previous version (MWO v2, 2024.03.11): http://purls.helmholtz-metadaten.de/mwo/2.0.0.
• Previous version (MWO v1, 2023.02.16): http://purls.helmholtz-metadaten.de/mwo/1.0.1.
• Creators: Hossein Beygi Nasrabadi, Jörg Waitelonis, Ebrahim Norouzi, Kostiantyn Hubaiev, Harald Sack.
• Contributors: Abril Azócar Guzmán, Ahmad Zainul Ihsan, Said Fathalla, Angelika Gedsun, Amir Laadhar, Stefan Sandfeld, Volker Hofmann, Felix Fritzen.
• Related project: NFDI MatWerk.
• Funding: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under the National Research Data Infrastructure – NFDI 38/1 – project number 460247524.
• License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/.
• Citation: Hossein Beygi Nasrabadi, Jörg Waitelonis, Ebrahim Norouzi, Kostiantyn Hubaiev, Harald Sack. NFDI MatWerk Ontology (mwo). Revision: v3.0.0. Retrieved from: https://github.com/ISE-FIZKarlsruhe/mwo.

Here you will find information about:
- Introduction, scopes, features, and application of the ontology
- Ontology structure, reused upper-level ontologies, and ontology key concepts
- Ontology patterns and use-cases
- Different versions of the ontology
- how to contribute
- Acknowledgements
- References and related publications