Creating and Visualizing the Materials Science
Knowledge Graph with Whyis
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Jamie McCusker
1[0000-0003-1085-6059]
, Michael Deagen
2[0000-0002-8034-0667]
,
Tolulomo Fateye
3[0000-0002-2061-2261]
, Anya Wallace
4[0000-0003-3123-2122]
,
Sabbir M. Rashid
1[0000-0002-4162-8334]
, and Deborah L.
McGuinness
1[0000-0001-7037-4567]
1
Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, US
{mccusj2,rashis}@rpi.edu, dlm@cs.rpi.edu
2
College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, University of Vermont,
Burlington, VT, US Michael.Deagen@uvm.edu
3
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University,
Durham, NC, US tolulomo.fateye@duke.edu
4
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics, California Institute of
Technology, Pasadena, CA, US awallace@caltech.edu
Abstract. The NanoMine knowledge graph is being expanded to sup-
port a broader range of materials, now including metamaterials, and is
now called MaterialsMine. In the process, we have added new knowledge
curation and visualization capabilities to Whyis, the framework that Ma-
terialsMine (and NanoMine before it) is built on. This demonstration will
show how we use Whyis to support user-provided data uploads that con-
form to the Dataset Catalog standard, use DOI and ORCiD to populate
dataset metadata, curate data files into knowledge graph fragments us-
ing Semantic Data Dictionaries, and allow domain scientists to visualize
and explore the graph using SPARQL, Vega-Lite, and Data Voyager.
Keywords: Semantic Science · Knowledge Graphs · Knowledge Engi-
neering.
1 Introduction
We will demonstrate the MaterialsMine knowledge graph and how it was devel-
oped using the Whyis Knowledge Graph Framework [4]. Materials science studies
the interrelationships between processing and properties of materials by analyz-
ing material structure at multiple length scales. The MaterialsMine knowledge
graph builds on the NanoMine knowledge graph [3] by expanding into datasets
for mechanical and acoustic metamaterials and generalizing the ability to curate
data from materials science. Metamaterials are materials that have their proper-
ties modified through their structures, resulting in radically different accoustic,
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mons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). The authors gratefully
acknowledge support of the NSF CSSI program (OAC-1835677).