Technical References

NOMAD Metainfo Browser

Allows users to explore all available schemas, including their sections, values, and references, in a detailed and interactive manner.

It can be accessed through the Analyze tab in any NOMAD instance. To explore the schemas specific to the NOMAD-material-processing plugin, you can visit the Metainfo Browser on the Example Oasis and review all the details of the plugin's structures and components.

Glossary

subclass

Inheritance of classes. Whenever a Python class inherits from another one, this is called subclass, meaning that it is semantically a children of the inherited one.

subsection

Composition of classes. A class can contain some subsection nested (or composed) inside it. These classes are not related by inheritance relationship.

Info

Please also refer to the glossary in the NOMAD documentation to find definitions and explanations for specific technical terms used throughout the NOMAD software.