Meeting objectives: 

• Spread awareness about the group and the broader landscape of materials data
• Share their knowledge/awareness of existing resources (including semantic artefacts, services and best practices) – Stream A objective 
• Discuss consensus classifications and FAIR maturity indicators – Stream A & B objectives  

Brief introduction describing the activities and scope of the group: 

The focus of the WG is on increasing uptake of the FAIR Principles in materials research (in particular in connection with Interoperability and Reusability), supported by improved resources, in particular widely-agreed and FAIR terminologies, metadata and ontologies. While the main focus of the WG is in the material sciences, close interactions with cognate domains, in particular chemistry, are crucial in order to avoid conflicting approaches and also to utilise and integrate with already existing semantic artefacts and resources in these fields.

The group brings together activities and initiatives related to FAIR data in materials domains from many European countries, EU project, and initiatives in the US, Korea and Japan. There are currently 34 members registered via the RDA site.