Proposals should address all of the following activities:

• Establish an inventory of relevant existing collaborative materials data and information systems (platforms, databases and infrastructures) serving strategic innovation markets.
• Network the identified data and information systems and make them accessible and usable for any stakeholder interested in the research, development or deployment of advanced materials research results.
• Establish common methodologies for data acquisition and knowledge generation:
  • Modelling, including data- and physics-based materials modelling
  • Characterisation, including multi-scale, multi-technique, in/on-line
  • Materials synthesis and fabrication technologies including autonomous robotics platforms
  • Machine learning and AI-based methods
• Based on the scope of the strategic innovation markets, and on the methodologies above for acquiring data and generating knowledge, develop a common language for data documentation and exchange on advanced materials and related manufacturing processes through widely agreed vocabularies, taxonomies as well as relevant domain ontologies based on the Industry Commons Ontology Commons EcoSystem (OCES)128 and the Elementary Multiperspective Material Ontology (EMMO)129, covering all relevant methodologies (including modelling and characterisation).
• Demonstrate easy access to reliable data and information/knowledge by connection of identified databases with the ontologies, providing a resource for the materials developers community and for industries.
• Integrate data and methods for life-cycle assessment and take into account the safe and sustainable by design framework for chemicals and materials. etc.

Actions are required that ensure synergies and common approaches across strategic innovation markets driven by advanced materials, to capitalise on commonalities and to ensure interoperability and integration of all methodologies. There should be collaboration with existing European and national data spaces and marketplaces on interfaces and metadata, in order to ease the access and improve the (re-) use of materials data.