Developing community engagement for RM3FD: Repository, Management, and Modeling for Materials Fundamental Data

• One motivation for RM3FD is the recognized need for the community to organize the means of collecting, evaluating and sharing data both for modeling and for interpretation of experiments. Resources of the envisioned RM3FD association could include annual membership dues, public or private donations and grants, income from services rendered by the association, and other income authorized by law. One model for this endeavor is the LXCat endeavor in France for the int'l low-temperature plasma science community.
  
  -- Facilitate the exchange of data and numerical tools for modeling PMI in Materials and Fusion Nuclear Science, Engineering, & Technology. Notional objectives include:
  
  -- Encourage the exchange and the open access of fundamental data via the internet.
  
  -- Develop tools to facilitate the exchange of on-line data.
  
  -- Contribute to the collection and evaluation of data.
  
  -- Communicate with int’l fusion-materials community to increase visibility of fundamental data available on-line.
  
  -- Communicate with specialists via the Modeling for Fusion Materials Fundamental Data Network/Forum.
  
  -- Encourage open access of numerical tools for data generation & analysis as well as for modeling PMI properties
  
  -- Contribute to the standardization of formats for storing of and exchanging of data
  
  
  
  Interested partners are welcome to join the effort as stakeholders (users, contributers, advisors, and leaders within the association in advancing a proposal to DOE-FES. This effort is tentatively encouraged by DOE-FES.