The increasing adoption of Open Science principles has been a prevalent topic in the welding science community over the last years. Providing access to welding knowledge in the form of complex and complete datasets in addition to peer-reviewed publications can be identified as an important step to promote knowledge exchange and cooperation. There exist previous efforts on building data models specifically for fusion welding applications; however, a common agreed upon implementation that is used by the community is still lacking. One proven approach in other domains has been the use of an openly accessible and agreed upon file and data format used for archiving and sharing domain knowledge in the form of experimental data. Going into a similar direction, the welding community faces particular practical, technical, and also ideological challenges that are discussed in this paper. Collaboratively building upon previous work with modern tools and platforms, the authors motivate, propose, and outline the use of a common file format specifically tailored to the needs of the welding research community as a complement to other already established Open Science practices. Successfully establishing a culture of openly accessible research data has the potential to significantly stimulate progress in welding research.

在过去的几年里，越来越多地采用开放科学原则一直是焊接科学界的一个普遍话题。除了同行评审的出版物之外，以复杂和完整的数据集的形式提供对焊接知识的访问可以被确定为促进知识交流与合作的重要步骤。之前已经在构建专门用于熔焊应用的数据模型方面做出了努力；但是，仍然缺乏社区使用的共同商定的实施方式。在其他领域中一种行之有效的方法是使用可公开访问和商定的文件和数据格式，用于以实验数据的形式存档和共享领域知识。朝着类似的方向发展，焊接界面临着特殊的实践、技术、以及本文讨论的意识形态挑战。作者通过使用现代工具和平台在先前工作的基础上进行协作，激发、提出并概述了一种通用文件格式的使用，该格式专门针对焊接研究社区的需求量身定制，作为对其他已经建立的开放科学实践的补充。成功建立公开访问研究数据的文化有可能显着促进焊接研究的进步。