A RESTful API for exchanging materials data in the AFLOWLIB.org consortium
The continued advancement of science depends on shared and reproducible data. In the field of computational materials science and rational materials design this entails the construction of large open databases of materials properties. To this end, an Application Program Interface (API) following REST principles is introduced for the AFLOWLIB.org materials data repositories consortium. AUIDs (Aflowlib Unique IDentifier) and AURLs (Aflowlib Uniform Resource Locator) are assigned to the database resources according to a well-defined protocol described herein, which enables the client to access, through appropriate queries, the desired data for post-processing. This introduces a new level of openness into the AFLOWLIB repository, allowing the community to construct high-level work-flows and tools exploiting its rich data set of calculated structural, thermodynamic, and electronic properties. Furthermore, federating these tools will open the door to collaborative investigations of unprecedented scope that will dramatically accelerate the advancement of computational materials design and development. © 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
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Published In
DOI
ISSN
Publication Date
Volume
Start / End Page
Related Subject Headings
- Materials
- 5104 Condensed matter physics
- 4016 Materials engineering
- 0912 Materials Engineering
- 0205 Optical Physics
- 0204 Condensed Matter Physics