The Materials Data Facility (MDF) is a distributed model for the materials data community that aims to make materials data more shareable, open, accessible, computable, and valuable. The MDF indexes over 100 terabytes of materials data from various repositories and facilities. It provides services for data discovery, publication with DOIs, and integrates data with computing resources. The goal is to simplify critical tasks in materials science like finding relevant data, training machine learning models across multiple datasets, and reproducing results.