Materials Commons

Materials-science data repository for storing, sharing and publishing research datasets and workflows, operated by the PRISMS Center at the University of Michigan. It advertises a CLI and an API, but the only published API documentation is a Sphinx reference for the materials_commons.api Python package (version 2.0b5, copyright 2021, PRISMS Center) — there is no HTTP contract, no OpenAPI and no path reference. Nothing has been derived from the SDK docs, because a Python client is not a description of the wire protocol.

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aid: university-of-michigan-ann-arbor:materials-commons
name: Materials Commons
x-operator: institution
x-operator-evidence: 'Not on umich.edu — materialscommons.org is a project domain. Institutional ownership
  is evidenced instead: the site states it is operated as part of the PRISMS Center at the University
  of Michigan under DOE award DE-SC0008637, its API documentation is copyright PRISMS Center, and its
  DOI-minting repository UMICH.MC is registered under the University of Michigan Library''s DataCite provider
  account. This is a U-M research project on its own domain, not a tenancy on a vendor platform.'
description: Materials-science data repository for storing, sharing and publishing research datasets and
  workflows, operated by the PRISMS Center at the University of Michigan. It advertises a CLI and an API,
  but the only published API documentation is a Sphinx reference for the materials_commons.api Python
  package (version 2.0b5, copyright 2021, PRISMS Center) — there is no HTTP contract, no OpenAPI and no
  path reference. Nothing has been derived from the SDK docs, because a Python client is not a description
  of the wire protocol.
humanURL: https://materialscommons.org/
tags:
- Research Data
- Repository
- Materials Science
- SDK
- DataCite
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://materials-commons.github.io/materials-commons-api/html/index.html
- type: Website
  url: https://materialscommons.org/