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1 +SciCat - Scientific Metadata Management at DESY
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13 13  Goal number one is to provide a useful catalogue to the user at DESY. Useful means - among others -
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15 -* Introduce standardised way of defining meta data, FS-EC (under Linus Pithan)
16 -* Use SciCat to help book keeping of what was measured.
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 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 access experimental data that comply with DESY Policy and .
19 -* Provide technical support for instances (IT-InFa)
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.
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20 +### Milestone achieved by January 2026
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22 +Set up of the system to mint DOIs. Any requests can be addressed to _photon-doi@desy.de._
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25 25  ## Step by step guide for the Photon Science DOI minting Service
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27 -The system is set up such that we provide an internal and public, outward facing SciCat. Into the internal, several PETRA beamlines ingest directly their metadata during beamtime that are P08, P05, P65. The URL is
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
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29 -[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 availble through keykloak.
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 .
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31 -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)
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33 33  {{success}}
34 34  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]].
35 35  {{/success}}
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36 +### Public data portal
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38 +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,
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40 +* [https://public-doi.desy.de/](https://public-doi.desy.de/)
41 +* [https://doi.desy.de/](https://doi.desy.de/)
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43 +are useful for enhancing scientific metadata especially when connected to federated search engines
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39 39  ## Deployment of SciCat at DESY
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41 -To provide this service
47 +This service is deployed on a Kubernetes cluster, managed and configured by gitlab repositories for
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49 +* templated helm charts for better maintainability.
50 +* a mirror of official repositories of frontend and backend code
51 +* a supplemented service that supports the DESY publication workflow
52 +* the DevOps tool Argo CD to control, configure and monitor the application
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45 -### Current
54 +In case you would like more details on the technical setup, please seek more information through our contact persons.
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56 +### Contact
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58 +Peter van der Reest, Johannes Reppin and Regina Hinzmann (to email simply replace spaces by dots and add ATdesy.de at the end).
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47 47  ### Main Links:
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49 49  * [Official Scicat website](https://scicatproject.github.io)
50 50  * [Official SciCat project repositories](https://github.com/SciCatProject)
51 -* [Official Scicat documentation](https://scicatproject.github.io/documentation/)
52 -* [DESY internal repositories](https://gitlab.desy.de/it-infa/metadata)
64 +* [Official Scicat documentation](https://www.scicatproject.org/user-documentation/main/)