Data & informatics

News and Updates

Face Recognition Software Shows Improvement in Recognizing Masked Faces

December 1, 2020

A new study of face recognition technology created after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic shows that some software developers have made demonstrable progress

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Providing NIST Guest Researchers with the Tools they Need

October 13, 2020

NIST is made up of a wide array of professionals from many different backgrounds, from science and engineering to communications, information technology, and

NIST Crowdsourcing Challenge to De-Identify Public Safety Data Sets

October 1, 2020

BOULDER, Colo. — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has launched a crowdsourcing challenge to spur new

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Recovering Data: NIST’s Neural Network Model Finds Small Objects in Dense Images

August 4, 2020

In efforts to automatically capture important data from scientific papers, computer scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have

Projects and Programs

This research data lifecycle has six stages: Envision; Plan; Generate/Acquire; Process/Analyze; Share/Use/Reuse; and Preserve/Discard

Research Data Framework (RDaF)

In the past decade, research data have become widely recognized as a critical national and global resource, and the risks of losing or mismanaging research data

A digital object is composed of Data, Metadata, Protocols & Operations, and Persistent Identifiers.

Facilitating the Adoption of the FAIR Digital Object Framework in Material Science

With increasing use of data-driven methodologies, concerns around data discovery, data access, and data interoperability have come to the forefront. Communities

Genome in a Bottle

Consortium hosted by NIST and JIMB dedicated to authoritative characterization of benchmark human genomes. Sign up for General GIAB and Analysis Team email

Functional Analysis of Variance

Modern instruments tend to produce data that are consisted of measured spectra, probability distribution functions, or simply sampled curves. Statistical

Publications

Open Media Forensics Challenge 2020 - DARPA MediFor Demo Day

October 1, 2020

Author(s)

Jonathan G. Fiscus, Haiying Guan, Yooyoung Lee, Amy N. Yates, Andrew P. Delgado, Timothée N. Kheyrkhah

Media Forensics Challenge 2019 Evaluation Plan

October 1, 2020

Author(s)

Amy N. Yates, Haiying Guan, Yooyoung Lee, Andrew P. Delgado, Daniel F. Zhou, Timothée N. Kheyrkhah, Jonathan G. Fiscus

Enriching Standards-Based Digital Thread by Fusing As-Designed and As-Inspected Data Using Ontologies

August 13, 2020

Author(s)

Soonjo Kwon, William Z. Bernstein, Laetitia V. Monnier, Raphael Barbau

Realizing the digital thread is essential for linking and orchestrating data across the product lifecycle in smart manufacturing. Linking heterogeneous

NexusLIMS: Leveraging Shared Microscopy Resources for Data Analysis with a Configurable Laboratory Information Management System

July 30, 2020

Author(s)

Joshua A. Taillon, Raymond L. Plante, Marcus W. Newrock, June W. Lau, Gretchen R. Greene

Software

The NIST Data Alignment Tool

June 18, 2019

The Data Alignment Tool (DAT) was built to assist with the analysis of data used in testing fault detection and diagnostics (FDD) tools and building

RECIPE

RECIPE is a FORTRAN program for determining one-sided tolerance limits (in particular, A- and B-basis material property values) for regression models in the

Extreme Winds and Wind Effects on Structures

The Engineering Laboratory has an established long-term collaboration with the NIST Statistical Engineering Division in the analysis of extreme wind speeds and

Curated Archive for COVID-19 Research Challenge Dataset (cord19-cdcs-nist)

This GitHub repository contains a downloadable snapshot of National Institute of Standards and Technology's COVID-19 Data Repository, curated from the COVID-19

Tools and Instruments

High Throughput (Combinatorial) Screening Tool for Characterization of Thin Film Thermoelectrics as a Function Temperature

High-throughput (combinatorial) metrologies have evolved as a useful approach to rapidly determine the composition-structure-property relationships for novel

Awards

Robert Hanisch Honored as Fellow of the American Astronomical Society

The AAS Fellows program was established in 2019 to confer recognition upon AAS members for achievement and extraordinary service to the...