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SINTEF’s Role within the PINK Project
Within PINK, SINTEF is leading the work package PROVIDE – a single platform for materials modelling, SSbD and databases. SINTEF is a core contributor to the development of the data documentation system needed for FAIR data and models and the cross-domain harmonization processes. SINTEF has been and is heavily involved in projects within the European Materials Modelling Council (EMMC) efforts and provides the link to the FAIRification of Materials. SINTEF has long experience in interoperability and materials digitalisation, is heavily involved in the development of the EMMO top-level ontology and is intimately involved in the cross-domain harmonisation processes within PINK. SINTEF provides a concept for FAIR data documentation in PINK, which includes tools such as DLite (a lightweight data-centric framework for semantic interoperability) and Tripper (a Triplestore wrapper for Python providing a simple and consistent interface to a range of triplestore backends).
SINTEF’s PINK Team
Dr. Francesca Lønstad Bleken is a senior scientist at SINTEF and the leader of WP4 with a background in experimental and theoretical chemistry within heterogenous catalysis.
Dr. Jesper Friis is a senior scientist at SINTEF with background in materials physics. The need for interoperability brought him to EMMC, where he now is chair of the focus area on digitalisation and interoperability and one of the core authors of the EMMO ontology.
Thomas F. Hagelien is a senior software engineer in SINTEF with a M.Sc in Software Science. He will be a core member in the development of the assisted datadocumentation interface that is intended to facilitate the documentation process in PINK.
