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Repository
European Registry of Materials
Basic Info
- Host: GitHub
- Owner: NanoCommons
- License: cc0-1.0
- Default Branch: master
- Homepage: https://nanocommons.github.io/identifiers/
- Size: 422 KB
Statistics
- Stars: 7
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 4
- Open Issues: 1
- Releases: 3
Metadata Files
readme.md
European Registry of Materials
The European Registry of Materials is a simple registry with the sole purpose to mint material identifiers to be used by research projects throughout the life cycle of their project (fairsharing.org entry). The identifier is nothing more than that identifier, and not by default linked to any information. Think of it as a pre-registration of the intention to study the material.
Once the identifier is created by a research project, the idea is that it is used throughout the whole study, from the design to the final reporting. It is meant to be used as unique, persistant identifier to be used in descriptions of experimental designs, in (open) notebooks, in reports, in project milestones and deliverables, and in journal articles.
More information and use cases can be found in this paper:
Van Rijn, J., Afantitis, A., Culha, M. et al. European Registry of Materials: global, unique identifiers for (undisclosed) nanomaterials. J Cheminform 14, 57 (2022). doi:10.1186/s13321-022-00614-7.
The identifier
The identifier can be used in two ways. For regular writing, it can be used as in its compact form. For semantic web approaches, the full IRI can be used. Both will be considered equivalent and refer to the same identifier. The identifier is described by the CHEMINF ontology term CHEMINF_000569 and part of the eNanoMapper ontology (version 6).
The associated information
To encourage wide adoption, the information that the registry will provide is kept to a minimum. This registry is not a database. In 2023 a database of ERM identifiers with public, online information was created.
Additionally, you can search for ERM identifiers in the following resources, e.g.:
Required information
The only required information to provide during a registry is a name or label. This label can be anything. It can be a anonymized label, a descriptive label, or a more rich description. Importantly, the label itself has no meaning. Moreover, the label does not have to be unique.
Optional information
The following bits of information are welcome but not required (in random order):
- parent ERM identifier (identifier of the material that this material was derived from): identifier or IRI or Compact identifier
- unique chemical composition
- batch and/or lot number
- an ontological classification (could be suggested based on the chemical composition?)
- a webpage
- a provider, contact, or project name
Keep in mind that provided data is provided to the registry under the CCZero license.
Providing data
This document explains how to register new materials.
Acknowledgement
This registry is supported by NanoCommons. NanoCommons has received funding from European Union Horizon 2020 Programme (H2020) under grant agreement nº 731032.

Owner
- Name: H2020 NanoCommons
- Login: NanoCommons
- Kind: organization
- Email: info@nanocommons.eu
- Location: Europe
- Website: https://www.nanocommons.eu/
- Repositories: 10
- Profile: https://github.com/NanoCommons
Citation (CITATION.cff)
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- family-names: Willighagen
given-names: Egon
- family-names: van Rijn
given-names: Jeaphianne
- family-names: Jeliazkova
given-names: Nina
- family-names: Dokler
given-names: Joh
title: European Registry of Materials
version: 2022-03
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.6257661
date-released: 2022-03-09
url: "https://github.com/NanoCommons/identifiers"
preferred-citation:
type: article
authors:
- family-names: van Rijn
given-names: Jeaphianne
orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5026-7705
- family-names: Afantitis
given-names: Antreas
- family-names: Culha
given-names: Mustafa
- family-names: Dusinska
given-names: Maria
- family-names: Exner
given-names: Thomas
- family-names: Jeliazkova
given-names: Nina
- family-names: Longhin
given-names: Eleonora M.
- family-names: Lynch
given-names: Iseult
- family-names: Melagraki
given-names: Georgia
- family-names: Nymark
given-names: Penny
- family-names: Papadiamantis
given-names: Anastasios G.
- family-names: Winkler
given-names: David A.
- family-names: Yilmaz
given-names: Hulya
- family-names: Willighagen
given-names: Egon L.
title: "European Registry of Materials: global, unique identifiers for (undisclosed) nanomaterials"
year: 2022
month: 8
day: 24
journal: Journal of Cheminformatics
doi: 10.1186/s13321-022-00614-7
url: https://jcheminf.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13321-022-00614-7
GitHub Events
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- Issues event: 9
- Watch event: 1
- Issue comment event: 18
- Push event: 5
Last Year
- Issues event: 9
- Watch event: 1
- Issue comment event: 18
- Push event: 5
Issues and Pull Requests
Last synced: 10 months ago
All Time
- Total issues: 5
- Total pull requests: 0
- Average time to close issues: 2 days
- Average time to close pull requests: N/A
- Total issue authors: 2
- Total pull request authors: 0
- Average comments per issue: 3.6
- Average comments per pull request: 0
- Merged pull requests: 0
- Bot issues: 0
- Bot pull requests: 0
Past Year
- Issues: 5
- Pull requests: 0
- Average time to close issues: 2 days
- Average time to close pull requests: N/A
- Issue authors: 2
- Pull request authors: 0
- Average comments per issue: 3.6
- Average comments per pull request: 0
- Merged pull requests: 0
- Bot issues: 0
- Bot pull requests: 0
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