The CHAMEO Ontology: Exploiting EMMO's Multiperspective Versatility for Capturing Materials Characterization Procedures

The characterization of materials includes a plethora of different methods and terminologies, and as such has historically been a challenging field for promoting effective mechanisms of interaction and interoperability among its communities. Within this context, the CHAMEO ontology has the purpose of providing a common modeling framework for materials characterization, in terms of a domain-level ontology under which method-specific, application ontologies in the field may be developed. CHAMEO, based on the CHADA documentation scheme, is part of a larger effort in standardizing materials modeling and scientific activities that has EMMO, the Elementary Multiperspective Material Ontology, as its core. In this regard, this work shows how CHAMEO, via its alignment with EMMO and the exploitation of the latter's constructs and perspectives, can effectively help scientists model the different aspects of the materials characterization processes.