Changes for page SciCat - Scientific Metadata Management at DESY
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... ... @@ -8,28 +8,40 @@ 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 -### 11 +### Goals for SciCat at DESY 12 12 13 - ###13 +Goal number one is to provide a useful catalogue to the user at DESY. Useful means - among others - 14 14 15 +* Introduce standardised way of defining meta data, FS-EC (under Linus Pithan). 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. 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 + 20 +### Milestone achieved by January 2026: 21 + 22 +Set up of the system to mint DOIs. 23 + 15 15 ## Step by step guide for the Photon Science DOI minting Service 16 16 26 +The system is set up such that an internal and public, outward facing SciCat is provided. Into the internal, several PETRA beamlines ingest directly their metadata during beamtime that are P08, P05, P65. The URL is 27 + 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 + 30 +It is connected to the external catalogue, fsdata.desy.de, on which DOIs can be minted for selected datasets from the internal catalogue. 31 + 17 17 {{success}} 18 18 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]]. 19 19 {{/success}} 20 20 21 -### Goalsfor SciCat at DESY36 +### 22 22 23 -Goal number one is to provide a useful catalogue to the user at DESY. Useful means - among others - 24 - 25 -* introduce standardised way of defining meta data, FS-EC (under Linus Pithan) 26 -* use SciCat to issue DOIs: in agreement with L start setting up a workflow (involved IT-RIC Tim W) 27 -* provide technical support for instances (IT-InFa) 28 - 29 29 ## Deployment of SciCat at DESY 30 30 31 -Th e systemis set up such that we provideaninternalandpublic,outwardfacingSciCat.Into theinternal,severalPETRA beamlines ingestdirectlytheir metadataduring beamtimethat areP08, P05, P65. T40 +This service is deployed on a Kubernetes cluster, managed and configured by gitlab repositories for 32 32 42 +* templated helm charts for better maintainability 43 +* a mirror of official repositoro 44 + 33 33 ### 34 34 35 35 ### Current