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1 -SciCat - Scientific Metadata Management at DESY
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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:
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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.
23 23  
24 24  ## Step by step guide for the Photon Science DOI minting Service
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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 .
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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)
30 +It is connected to the external catalogue, fsdata.desy.de, on which DOIs can be minted for selected datasets from the internal catalogue.
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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}}
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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 so metadata can be harvested in a broader scope than the dicipline itself.
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45 45  ## Deployment of SciCat at DESY
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47 -This service is deployed on a Kubernetes cluster, managed and configured by gitlab repositories for
40 +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
42 +* temp
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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
46 +### Current
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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).
48 +### Main Links:
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60 -### More Information on the SciCat Project
61 -
62 62  * [Official Scicat website](https://scicatproject.github.io)
63 63  * [Official SciCat project repositories](https://github.com/SciCatProject)
64 -* [Official Scicat documentation](https://www.scicatproject.org/user-documentation/main/)
52 +* [Official Scicat documentation](https://scicatproject.github.io/documentation/)
53 +* [DESY internal repositories](https://gitlab.desy.de/it-infa/metadata)