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5 5  ## General information about SciCat
6 6  
7 7  SciCat stands for “Science Catalogue” and is generally used as a metadata catalogue for finding back data, addressing thereby the needs of a growing photon and neutron science community. It is used at many large European facilities before it came to DESY in January 2022, like PSI, ESS, MaxIV.
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11 11  One of SciCats strengths is that technically one can impose your own schema, the fields to describe your use case. These pages describe the current state of SciCat. The ultimate goal is to have a production system of SciCat that serves all beamlines.
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9 +To gain experience so-called _demonstrator beamlines_ where chosen, where a test instance of SciCat has been setup. These are: P08 and FLASH. In addition serveral other have been added, see [SciCat Instances](https://xwiki.desy.de/xwiki/bin/view/IT/SciCat/CICD%20Setup/). These help to identify missing features and adopt SciCat to DESY needs.
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13 13  ### Current state of SciCat at DESY
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15 -To gain experience so-called _demonstrator beamlines_ where chosen, where a test instance of SciCat has been setup. These are: P08 and FLASH. In addition serveral other have been added, see [SciCat Instances](https://xwiki.desy.de/xwiki/bin/view/IT/SciCat/CICD%20Setup/). These help to identify missing features and adopt SciCat to DESY needs.
13 +Beamline ingestion has been streamlined such that there is one single catalogue for all DESY beamlines.
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15 +###
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17 +## Step by step guide for the Photon Science DOI minting Service
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20 +e this [[page|doc:IT.SciCat.Step-by-step DOI minting Guide at DESY.WebHome]]
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17 17  ### Goals for SciCat at DESY
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19 19  Goal number one is to provide a useful catalogue to the user at DESY. Useful means - among others -
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22 22  * use SciCat to issue DOIs: in agreement with L start setting up a workflow (involved IT-RIC Tim W)
23 23  * provide technical support for instances (IT-InFa)
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25 -### Step by Step DOI minting for Photon Science
31 +### Main Links:
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27 -see this [[page|doc:.Users step-by-step DOI minting instructions.WebHome]]
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29 -Main Links:
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31 31  * [Official Scicat website](https://scicatproject.github.io)
32 32  * [Official SciCat project repositories](https://github.com/SciCatProject)
33 33  * [Official Scicat documentation](https://scicatproject.github.io/documentation/)
34 34  * [DESY internal repositories](https://gitlab.desy.de/it-infa/metadata)
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36 -Structure draft
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38 -* Infos about the repositories
39 - * Frontend
40 - * Backend
41 - * etc.
42 -* CI/CD Setup
43 - * Schedules
44 - * Process
45 - * what, why, when
46 -* Deployment
47 - * Helm
48 - * Workflow
49 - * What is configured where
50 -* Migration
51 - * Workflow
52 -* Kubernetes
53 - * Structure
54 -* Scicat and Keycloak
55 - * Workflow
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