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Materials Digital Library: MatDL.org

The Materials Digital Library (MatDL) project conducts research on the efficient delivery of a materials digital library to maximize opportunities to create and disseminate rich scientific content to students, educators, and researchers using a three-pronged approach: (i) collection of materials content, with an emphasis on soft matter, (ii) use of materials content in a digital library, and (iii) construction of authoring tools for improved delivery. Submission, editing, and composing tools will enable experts and novices to characterize their contributions to MatDL, as materials scientists would, using metadata schemas and domain-specific markup languages, such as Materials Markup Language. Initial content of MatDL will begin with resources selected from the Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.