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9 Office of Data and Informatics
Pages 65-71

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... The office is similarly meeting this portion of its mission through programs that it offers, including creating data infrastructure workflows, modern and robust data repositories, and thought leadership for the use and dissemination of research data beyond the federal government (i.e., the Research Data Framework)
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From page 66...
... The automatic addition of important metadata and tags about the equipment, its settings, and the context in which the images were created addresses key shortcomings that affect reproducibility in scientific settings. The benefits to society grow exponentially as it feeds into a truly FAIR2 pipeline that eventually allows for public discoverability through NIST's Public Data Repository, which allows for human and machine-readable data access.
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From page 67...
... This clever construct allows MML researchers to maintain instruments running proprietary software necessary for using equipment with proper security and technical support even after their original computers or operating systems are obsolete. This enables and extends the data capture that is instrumental for the Office of Data and Informatics.
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From page 68...
... . As mentioned in previous sections on technical expertise, the Office of Data and Informatics is able to expand the useful life of existing equipment through the use of virtual machines and is able to increase research efficiency through the creation of high-quality data workflows.
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From page 69...
... The NIST Public Data Repository includes fields for data set metrics that display usage statistics on total file downloads, total data set downloads, total bytes downloaded, total unique users, and last downloaded. Nine of 10 randomly selected data sets had only "Metrics not available" for the resource.
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From page 70...
... Public Data Repository as the place to publish all open-source projects and take advantage of its restricted access functionality for any NIST confidential or internal project. Recommendation 9-6: The Material Measurement Laboratory managers and researchers should adopt the materials science schema developed jointly with the Research Data Alliance.
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From page 71...
... 2021. "A Controlled Vocabulary and Metadata Schema for Materials Science Data Discovery." Data Science Journal 20:18.
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