SciCat

General information about SciCat

SciCat stands for “Science Catalogue” and is generally used as a metadata catalogue for finding back data, addressing thereby the needs of a growing photon and neutron science community. It is used at many large European facilities before it came to DESY in January 2022, like PSI, ESS, MaxIV.

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. Then there are various types of research – apart from the physics research one can perform at DESY: inhouse, commissioning, industries.

One of SciCats strengths is that technically one can impose your own schema, the fields to describe your use case.

Main Links:

• Official Scicat website
• Official SciCat project repositories
• Official Scicat documentation
• DESY internal repositories

Structure draft

• Infos about the repositories
  • Frontend
  • Backend
  • etc.
• CI/CD Setup
  • Schedules
  • Process
  • what, why, when
• Deployment
  • Helm
  • Workflow
  • What is configured where
• Migration
  • Workflow
• Kubernetes
  • Structure
• Scicat and Keycloak
  • Workflow