Changes for page SciCat - Scientific Metadata Management at DESY
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... ... @@ -4,14 +4,12 @@ 4 4 5 5 The challenge in photon and neutron science is to find a standard way of naming characteristics for a huge variety of experiments at beamlines, interconnecting several fields like chemistry, material science, biology, medicine, etc – covering many aspects that influences daily life. Apart from the "normal" physics research there are various other types of research depending on the purpose one can perform at DESY: inhouse, commissioning, industries. In additon, there are differences from PetraIII and FLASH within photon science. All this is reflected in the different treatment of the data taken. 6 6 7 -One of SciCats strengths is that technically one can impose your own schema, the fields to describe your use case. Many efforts were made at the European scope to use standardised vocabulary such that scientific metadata can be gathered and made findable, accessible and interoperable at first and ultimately reusable, eg. in NFDI and EOSC framed projects. DESY's SciCat system follows those standards ,7 +One of SciCats strengths is that technically one can impose your own schema, the fields to describe your use case. Many efforts were made at the European scope to use standardised vocabulary such that scientific metadata can be gathered and made findable, accessible and interoperable at first and ultimately reusable, eg. in NFDI and EOSC framed projects. DESY's SciCat system follows those standards. 8 8 9 9 To gain experience so-called _demonstrator beamlines_ where chosen, in 2021 when SciCat was chosen at DESY to be tested. These were: P08 and FLASH. In the next two following years, serveral other have been added, see [SciCat Instances](https://xwiki.desy.de/xwiki/bin/view/IT/SciCat/CICD%20Setup/). These helped to identify missing features and adopt SciCat to DESY needs. 10 10 11 -### Currentstate of SciCat at DESY11 +### 12 12 13 -Beamline ingestion has been streamlined in 2025 such that there is one single catalogue for all DESY beamlines. 14 - 15 15 ### 16 16 17 17 ## Step by step guide for the Photon Science DOI minting Service ... ... @@ -28,6 +28,12 @@ 28 28 * use SciCat to issue DOIs: in agreement with L start setting up a workflow (involved IT-RIC Tim W) 29 29 * provide technical support for instances (IT-InFa) 30 30 29 +## Deployment of SciCat at DESY 30 + 31 +### Current 32 + 33 +Beamline ingestion has been streamlined in 2025 such that there is one single catalogue for all DESY beamlines. 34 + 31 31 ### Main Links: 32 32 33 33 * [Official Scicat website](https://scicatproject.github.io)