EMMO
The Elementary Multiperspective Material Ontology (EMMO)
EMMO is the result of a multidisciplinary effort within the EMMC, aimed at the development of a standard representational ontology framework based on current materials modelling and characterisation knowledge. Instead of starting from general upper-level concepts, as done by other ontologies, the EMMO development started from the very bottom level, using the actual picture of the physical world coming from applied sciences, and from physics and material sciences.
The EMMO has grown from the bottom (i.e., scientific application field) to the top (i.e., conceptualisation), staying focused on the original scope while at the same time maintaining an approach as general as possible.
The ontological framework has been built around concepts like elementary particles, wave-particle dualism, finiteness of space and time intervals coming from the perspective for experimental physics. The development of the middle and upper layers of the ontology has been functional to the respect of these low-level concepts, to facilitate the understanding of the high-level concepts to users with limited or no philosophical background.
Harmonised documentation is crucial for communication and FAIR data. The materials modelling community has come up with a terminology, classification and standardised documentation of materials modelling and simulation.
The ontological framework has been built around concepts like elementary particles, wave-particle dualism, finiteness of space and time intervals coming from the perspective for experimental physics. The development of the middle and upper layers of the ontology has been functional to the respect of these low-level concepts, to facilitate the understanding of the high-level concepts to users with limited or no philosophical background.
Harmonised documentation is crucial for communication and FAIR data. The materials modelling community has come up with a terminology, classification and standardised documentation of materials modelling and simulation.
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Below you can find the most recent publications related to EMMO and a listing of ontologies based on it.
Literature and Ontologies related to EMMO
It is released under a Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license.
Publications
Related Ontologies
| Title | About | License | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| BIG-MAP | A Battery Interface Ontology based on EMMO | CC BY 4.0 | Repository |
| GPO | General Process Ontology - an ontology that aims to model processes. | CC BY 4.0 | Repository |
| BVC | Ontology for the Battery Value Chain. | CC BY 4.0 | Repository |
| Crystallography | A crystallography domain ontology based on EMMO and the CIF core dictionary. It is implemented as a formal language. | CC BY 4.0 | Repository |
| Mechanical Testing | A domain ontology for mechanical testing based on EMMO. | CC BY 4.0 | Repository |
| Datamodel Ontology | An ontological description of a simple data model aimed to make application specific data semantic interoperabel. | CC BY 4.0 | Repository |
| Mappings Ontology | The Mappings Ontology makes use of object property relations to create links between individuals of various other ontologies and related domains. | CC BY 4.0 | Repository |
| Domain ontology for atomistic and electronic modelling | An EMMO-based domain ontology for atomistic and electronic modelling. | CC BY 4.0 | Repository |
| CHAMEO | Characterisation Methodology Domain Ontology | CC BY 4.0 | Repository |
| EMMOntoPy | Library for representing and working with ontologies in Python. | BSD-3-Clause | Repository |
| MAEO | MarketPlace Agent and Expert Ontology | CC BY 4.0 | Repository |
| Hyper-dimensional Polymer Ontology | An ontology to capture the staggering diversity of polymeric materials and their applications. | CC BY 4.0 | Repository |
| CIF Ontology | The EMMC crystallography task group is providing an EMMO-based Crystallography Domain Ontology, which is based on both the CIF Ontology and EMMO. | CC BY 4.0 | Repository |
| BTO | Battery Testing Ontology | CC BY 4.0 | Repository |
| Atomistic and Electronic Modelling | Domain ontology for atomistic and electronic modelling | CC BY 4.0 | Repository |
| BATTERY | Battery Domain Ontology for describing battery systems, materials, methods, and data. | CC BY 4.0 | Repository |
| CHEMS | The Chemical Substance Domain Ontology is for describing chemical substances. | CC BY 4.0 | Repository |
| Coating Domain Ontology | This repository contains the coating domain and application ontologies developed in the VIPCOAT project. | CC BY 4.0 | Repository |
| DOAM | Domain Ontology for Additive Manufacturing | CC BY 4.0 | Repository |
| DOC | The Domain Ontology for Concrete is intended to be a domain ontology for development of concrete. | CC BY 4.0 | Repository |
| DOM | A domain ontology for microscopy that has a special focus on Transmission Electron Microscopy, Scanning Electron Microscopy and Light Microscopy. | CC BY 4.0 | Repository |
| Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Domain Ontology | Encompasses essential terms and relationships for systems, materials, methods, and data related to solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs). | CC BY 4.0 | Repository |
| ECHO | Electrochemistry Domain Ontology is for describing electrochemical systems, materials, methods, and data. | CC BY 4.0 | Repository |
| MagMO | Magnetic Materials Ontology | CC BY 4.0 | Repository |
| MaDO | Manufacturing domain ontology | CC BY 4.0 | Repository |
| MDO | The Microstructure Domain Ontology is intended to be a domain ontology for physical metallurgy. | CC BY 4.0 | Repository |
| Nanoindentation Ontology | A characterisation technique-specific ontology for Nanoindentation Testing | CC BY 4.0 | Repository |
| NEO | The Nuclear Energy Ontologyis a domain ontology for the representation of concepts in the field of nuclear energy. | CC BY 4.0 | Repository |
| OTEIO | Open Translation Environment Interface Ontologies | CC BY 4.0 | Repository |
| SSbD Core Ontology | SSbD Core Ontology provides semantic annotations for the Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) approach to guide the innovation process for chemicals and materials. It is constructed to be easily aligned with EMMO. | CC BY 4.0 | Repository |