How to work together for engineering materials!

To share and utilize data effectively for collaborative work, a common understanding of the knowledge behind the data, including its context and meaning, is a fundamental requirement. This paper focuses on the gaps that hinder common understanding between the real world and the data space, acting as barriers between systems, organizations, data spaces, and disciplines. To understand the core reasons and devise strategies for bridging the gap, the author has endeavored to synthesize a case study of material data activities from two perspectives: diachronic and synchronic, which is framed into a two-step process, involving the establishment of intersubjectivity among experts and interobjectivity among materials/substances data. As a result, the author has formulated an action plan for the digitization of engineering materials, encompassing tacit knowledge, know-how, and intellectual property rights to establish a foundation for their use with traceability, interoperability, and reusability. In order to create a conceptual framework that enhances a productive ecosystem facilitated by networked materials and substance databases, this plan is conclusively based on two key steps: fostering interactions among experts rooted in substances and materials and standardizing digitized data related to substances/materials based on their geospatial structural information.