The materials science community seeks to support the FAIR principles for computational simulation research. The MatCore Project was recently launched to address this need, with the goal of developing an overall metadata framework and accompanying guidelines. This paper reports on the MatCore goals and overall progress. Historical background context is provided, including a review of the principles underlying successful core metadata standards. The paper also presents selected MatCore examples and discusses future plans.
@article{arxiv.2502.07106,
title = {Towards MatCore: A Unified Metadata Standard for Materials Science},
author = {Jane Greenberg and Pamela Boveda-Aguirre and John Allison and Pietro Asinari and Maria Chan and Anand Chandrasekaran and Elif Ertekin and Emmanouel Garoufallou and Giulia Galli and Paolo Giannozzi and Feliciano Giustino and Gerhard Goldbeck and Hendrik Heinz and Arthi Jayaraman and Vincenzo Lordi and Kristin A. Persson and Gian-Marco Rignanese and Aidan Thompson and Eric Toberer and Scott McClellan and Ellad B. Tadmor},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.07106},
year = {2025}
}