NSF FAIROS Materials Research Data Alliance Working Groups to hold Town Hall Meeting at 2024 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit

SOCIETY NEWSto aggregate, organize, and exchange microscopy data in a FAIR way, as well as to support data analysis, including artificial intelligence and machine learning, and reuse.After the workshop, participants were invited to join two MaRDA Working Groups that would be established in 2023, and conduct their work within an 18-month period.By March 2023, two new MaRDA Working Groups (Microscopy Metadata and FAIR LIMS Data) were formed to develop draft recommendations for consideration by the materials community.These groups have brought together materials scientists and researchers from across academia, industry, and government with a broad range of focus areas and a goal to generate outputs that are useful to the entire materials research community, rather than limited to specific domains.