A Community-Developed Domain Ontology for Magnetic Materials

Wilfried Hortschitz; Santa Pile; Claas Fillies; Harald Oezelt; Alexander Kovacs; Hans Fangohr; Samuel J. R. Holt; Martin Lang; Andrea Petrocchi; Swapneel Pathak; Michael P. Adams; Jonas Winkler; Thomas G. Woodcock; William Rigaut; Pierre Le Berre; Nora M. Dempsey; Alena Vishina; M. Nur Hasan; Georgia A. Marchant; Heike C. Herper; Thomas Schrefl

arXiv · 2609.11464

A Community-Developed Domain Ontology for Magnetic Materials

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Magnetic materials play a crucial role in energy-related technologies, mobility, and sensing, but their complex multiscale behaviour and the coexistence of multiple unit systems pose persistent challenges for data exchange and interpretation. This paper presents a domain ontology for magnetic materials, developed within the European Union funded Magnetic Multiscale Modelling Suite (MaMMoS) project and aligned with the Elementary Multiperspective Material Ontology (EMMO). The ontology formalises intrinsic, hysteretic, and microstructural properties across multiple length scales and supports semantic interoperability between simulation tools, databases, and experimental workflows. One key feature of the ontology is its code-based and human-readable structure, enabled through the EMMOntoPy framework, which allows for direct manipulation and versioning without relying on opaque .owl or .ttl files. This facilitates collaborative development and improves transparency. The ontology supports FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) principles and is openly available for extension by the community. The aim of the MaMMoS project is to foster reproducibility, improve traceability, and promote the adoption of ontology in the magnetism domain. The ontology that has been developed already serves as the foundation for multiple software tools that handle all kinds of magnetic material data.

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Wilfried Hortschitz, Santa Pile, Claas Fillies, Harald Oezelt, Alexander Kovacs, Hans Fangohr, Samuel J. R. Holt, Martin Lang, Andrea Petrocchi, Swapneel Pathak, Michael P. Adams, Jonas Winkler, Thomas G. Woodcock, William Rigaut, Pierre Le Berre, Nora M. Dempsey, Alena Vishina, M. Nur Hasan, Georgia A. Marchant, Heike C. Herper, Thomas Schrefl. 2026-09-10. A Community-Developed Domain Ontology for Magnetic Materials. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.11464

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