Collaborative Research: Disciplinary Improvements: The Prometheus Initiative: FAIR model and data cyberinfrastructure for predictive combustion science

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Abstract

The project aims to unify the combustion research community's fragmented datasets by creating open-source, standardized databases for gas-phase chemical kinetics experiments and models. The project will develop a machine-readable, web-based, and API-accessible repository that initially compiles public data and later incorporates researcher-contributed datasets, all adhering to FAIR principles to promote accessibility and reuse. The project develops robust cyberinfrastructure to enable, facilitate, and encourage Public Access to and the widespread reuse of experimental and modeling data, stewarding Open Science in the field of gas-phase chemical kinetics, primarily combustion. This capability building project will: 1) devise open data formats for gas-phase chemical kinetics experiments and grow an open database of such measurements; 2) create a database for kinetic models and parameters with standardized formats; 3) build an innovative data repository model based on distributed version control to eliminate barriers to use, reuse, and contribution; 4) collect publicly available experimental and modeling data to bootstrap the databases; and 5) propose workflows and “apps” that use the database infrastructure, which will be useful in their own right, and serve as examples for others to follow in creating their own applications and workflows. This award by the Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure within the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering

Key facts

NSF award ID
2531938
Awardee
Oregon State University (OR)
SAM.gov UEI
MZ4DYXE1SL98
PI
Kyle E Niemeyer
Primary program
01002526DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
All programs
INFRASTRUCTURE MATERIALS, CIVIL INFRASTRUCTURE, STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS
Estimated total
$300,000
Funds obligated
$300,000
Transaction type
Standard Grant
Period
09/15/2025 → 08/31/2028