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\subsection{A Timely Opportunity}  Reliance on shared digital data in scientific and engineering pursuits—whether the data are derived from computation or experiment—is becoming more commonplace within the materials science and engineering (MSE) community. Concurrently, government policies across the globe are embracing an ``open science'' model which sets a requirement for sharing digital data generated from research. A recent MRS-TMS survey on ``Big Data'' in materials science and engineering showed 74\% of respondents would be willing to participate in sharing their data if it was encouraged as a term and condition of funding or publishing, assuming the proper safeguards were in place.\cite{TMSMRS} However, it is fair to say that the MSE community currently lacks the strategy, framework, and standards needed to support materials data curation and sharing. A unified approach is needed to meet the growing demands of the community and a plan to meet government mandated requirements for broad access to digital data. It is clear that the peer reviewed journals and government technical publications reports  serving the MSE community can be an essential component to the solution and there is now an opportunity to proactively plan how they may best serve the growing needs of their constituency.