The OPTIMADE consortium was formed with the goal to develop a holistic API that can access various materials databases. Under this banner, various workshops have created a community defining the OPTIMADE API [1]. The optimade-python-tools [2] have been developed and released as the reference implementation for python servers, lowering the barrier to new OPTIMADE adopters. A few tutorials have also been organized online [3].

From June 5 to 9, an hybrid event will be organized at the CECAM Headquarters in Lausanne (Switzerland) combining a tutorial and a workshop. The tutorial will be mainly online, but participants who would like to participate onsite are more than welcome. They can even stay for the rest of the workshop, and any participants implementing OPTIMADE for their own databases will be strongly encouraged to stay on to accelerate the adoption of OPTIMADE. For the workshop, onsite participation is strongly suggested though online attendance will be possible but without any guarantee on the experience.

Registrations are open till May 19.

The organisers

Rickard Armiento (Linköping University)
Gareth Conduit (University of Cambridge)
Saulius Gražulis (Vilnius University Life Science Center Institute of Biotechnology)
Giovanni Pizzi (Paul Scherrer Institute)
Gian-Marco Rignanese (Université Catholique de Louvain)
Markus Scheidgen (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Cormac Toher (University of Texas at Dallas)

References

[1] C. W. Andersen et al., Sci. Data 8, 217 (2021).
[2] M. Evans et al., J. Open Source Softw. 6, 3458 (2021).
[3] Videos are available both on YouTube and NOMAD