Reference Dataset Ontology (RDOC) (RDOC)

This document was developed within the NFDI-MatWerk (National Research Data Infrastructure for Materials Science & Engineering) consortium, specifically under the infrastructure use case IUC02 ("Framework for curation and distribution of reference datasets"). It provides a formal definition for "Reference Data" in the context of materials science and engineering (MSE) to establish a structured approach for collecting experimental and simulation data (such as creep test results for Ni-based superalloys) to ensure they are FAIR.