19th International CODATA Conference
Category: Poster, Interoperability

Production of The Data Input Interface for The Materials Database

Hiroshi YOSHIZU (yoshizu.hiroshi@nims.go.jp) and Kohmei HALADA (halada.kohmei@nims.go.jp), Ecomaterials Center, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
Masahiro UTIUMI (utiumi@nextsolution.co.jp), NEXT SOLUTION Co., LTD, Japan
Prof. Takeshi NAKATA (nakata@sic.shibaura-it.ac.jp), Shibaura Institute of Tecnology, Japan

In the domain for the materials property data of the VAMAS (The Versailles Project on Advanced Materials and Standards) projects, investigation for sharing of the materials database which stores materials property data is advanced by the specialist in Japan. The contents of investigation are as follows. - Investigation of the data structure for the materials database. - Reexamination of the data structure by XML description. - And creation of the DTD module which defines the data structure of the materials database. This report introduces about production of the data input interface based on the result of those activities. The main functions of the produced data input interface are as follows. 1) Data input by a user's original form. - Original form inputs data by the created original data form. 2) Data input by XML-DTD which defined the basic structure of the database. - Basic form uses the existing data structure module (NMC MatDB-DTD, MatML), and inputs data. 3) Data input by the form which customized the basic structure DTD. - Customize form extends a part of structure based on the basic data structure, and inputs data. The input form of this interface has such three functions. 4) This interface uses XML and DTD, and the data inputted in each form is outputted in XML form. XML is the data description language on the Internet, and assumed the sharing on the Internet in the future.

Keywords: Materials Database, Materials Property Data, Input Interface, XML, DTD