Changes for page SciCat - Scientific Metadata Management at DESY
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... ... @@ -14,12 +14,12 @@ 14 14 15 15 * Introduce standardised way of defining meta data, FS-EC (under Linus Pithan). 16 16 * Use SciCat to help book keeping of what was measured which also helps planning new research studies. 17 -* Use SciCat to issue DOIs: Together with the DESY library develop detailed workflow to help the user make data publication. 17 +* Use SciCat to issue DOIs: Together with the DESY library develop detailed workflow to help the user make data publication. 18 18 * Use SciCat to provide access to experimental data that comply with DESY photon science data Policy and can be made available through DESY resources. 19 19 20 -### Milestone achieved by January 2026 20 +### Milestone achieved by January 2026 21 21 22 -Set up of the system to mint DOIs. Any requests can be addressed to _photon-doi@desy.de._ 22 +Set up of the system to mint DOIs. Any requests can be addressed to _<photon-doi@desy.de>._ 23 23 24 24 ## Step by step guide for the Photon Science DOI minting Service 25 25 ... ... @@ -27,21 +27,26 @@ 27 27 28 28 [scicat.desy.de](https://scicat.desy.de), it has already more then 100,000 dataset entries where one of them has 160,000 associated datafiles (Feb 2026). It is MFA protected but single sign on is available through keykloak . 29 29 30 -It is connected to the external catalogue, fsdata.desy.de, on which DOIs can be minted for selected datasets from the internal catalogue. 30 +It is connected to the external catalogue, [fsdata.desy.de](https://fsdata.desy.de), on which DOIs can be minted for selected datasets from the internal catalogue. They will be listed under [doi.desy.de](https://doi.desy.de) 31 31 32 32 {{success}} 33 33 A detailed description of how to mint a DOI for your data is described on this [[page|doc:IT.SciCat.Step-by-step DOI minting Guide at DESY.WebHome]]. 34 34 {{/success}} 35 35 36 -### Public dataportal36 +### Public Data Portal 37 37 38 -There is a complementary service that goes beyond DESYs beamline data that handlesalready published datasets. In c38 +There is a complementary service that goes beyond DESYs beamline data handling already published datasets. In such a case one can still ask a DOI for that dataset(s) and addresses the need of providing a platform for open data. Both portals, 39 39 40 +* [https://public-doi.desy.de/](https://public-doi.desy.de/) 41 +* [https://doi.desy.de/](https://doi.desy.de/) 42 + 43 +are useful for enhancing scientific metadata especially when connected to federated search engines so metadata can be harvested in a broader scope than the dicipline itself. 44 + 40 40 ## Deployment of SciCat at DESY 41 41 42 -This service is deployed on a Kubernetes cluster, managed and configured by gitlab repositories for 47 +This service is deployed on a Kubernetes cluster, managed and configured by gitlab repositories for 43 43 44 -* templated helm charts for better maintainability. 49 +* templated helm charts for better maintainability. 45 45 * a mirror of official repositories of frontend and backend code 46 46 * a supplemented service that supports the DESY publication workflow 47 47 * the DevOps tool Argo CD to control, configure and monitor the application ... ... @@ -50,9 +50,9 @@ 50 50 51 51 ### Contact 52 52 53 -Peter van der Reest, Johannes Reppin and Regina Hinzmann (to email simply replace spaces by dots and add ATdesy.de at the end). 58 +Peter van der Reest, Johannes Reppin and Regina Hinzmann (to email simply replace spaces between the names by dots and add ATdesy.de at the end). 54 54 55 -### Main Links:60 +### More Information on the SciCat Project 56 56 57 57 * [Official Scicat website](https://scicatproject.github.io) 58 58 * [Official SciCat project repositories](https://github.com/SciCatProject)