MatML Version 3.0 for Materials Data Exchange

NIST, International Team Develop Materials Data Exchange Language

NIST, Materials Science. March 17, 2003.

Scientists and engineers trying to share materials property data over the Internet will have an easier time now thanks to a new computer language called MatML -- Materials Markup Language -- developed by an international group of researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), industry, government laboratories, universities, standards organizations and professional societies. MatML provides a standard format for managing and exchanging materials property data on the World Wide Web, eliminating interoperability and interpretation problems.

Based on the Extensible Markup Language (known as XML), MatML is a non-proprietary, generic language that makes it possible to parse and process data without the need for human intervention. The MatML format makes it easily readable and understandable by scientists and engineers. At the same time, MatML provides software developers with a protocol that is both structured and ordered, facilitating the transmission, validation, and interpretation of materials property data between different applications and across different platforms.

Currently, the MatML Steering Committee is coordinating acceptance testing as well as prototype software development.

More information, including the MatML Version 3.0 Schema, which contains the formal specification for the materials markup language, is available at www.matml.org or by calling Ed Begley: +1 (301) 975-6118, email begley@nist.gov.

Media Contact

Jan Kosko
NIST Public and Business Affairs Division
Tel: +1 (301) 975-2767
Email: janice.kosko@nist.gov

[Source: http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/update/upd20030317.htm/Materials#Materials]

Prepared by Robin Cover for The XML Cover Pages archive. See general references in "Materials Property Data Markup Language (MatML)."

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