The National Institute for Materials Science (hereafter NIMS) develops high value-adding technologies and efficient techniques for collecting test data as a part of materials research. The “NIMS Materials Data Conversion Tools (M-DaC),” which is provided with this development, refers to programs and source code that can (1) automatically extract the principle requirements and metadata of tests developed in cooperation with measurement instrument manufacturers and then automate the translation (decoding) thereof, as well as (2) perform Schema-on-Read decoding of multidimensional arrays of numerical data.

We hereby release the trial program, trial source code, and source data, etc. (hereafter “the Program”), free of charge, so that they may be used widely by researchers to promote related technological developments.

　　https://nims-dpfc.github.io/M-DaC_doc/

• python 3.X

• Jupyter Notebook (http://jupyter.org/)

• After downloading the set to the working directory, please try a series of flows with sample data of the following tutorial.
  https://nims-dpfc.github.io/M-DaC_doc/

• If you have data on hand of each manufacturer, you can proceed in the same way.

• Data and articles within the Program with “CC-BY-SA” in the License field may be used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.

• Trial source code within the Program with “MIT License” in the License field may be used under the MIT License as indicated separately in "LICENSE_MIT.txt".

• Trial programs by ULVAC-PHI, Inc. may be used within the scope of their license agreement, indicated separately.

• In more detail, please read the following license agreement; "Terms of Use and License.md"

• Please refer to the cited example of the research and development using the M-DaC

Ex) H. Nagao, S. Matsunami, M. Suzuki, and H. Yoshikawa: "NIMS Materials Data Conversion Tools (M-DaC) ver 1.1"

Please contact below if you have any questions about licensing and how to use this program.

National Institutes for Materials Science

Research and Services Division of Materials Data and Integrated System (MaDIS), Materials Data Platform Center

Materials Data Service Team (M-DaC in charge) E-mail: [email protected]

2019.1.30 1st Ed.
2020.4.15 2nd Ed.
2020.5.05 3rd Ed.