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DESY has joined the SciCat collaboration later than other big European laboratories, but in Jan 2022 it was decided to go for SciCat at DESY. Since then, IT has set up an OpenStack and Kubernetes infrastructure maintaining 14 instances of which a handful are actively used. This enables us to address independently several issues. We would touch upon those topics which we think are most important to overcome first to reach our overall goal of deploying SciCat at all beamlines (23+1 at PETRAIII and 4 at FLASH).
At DESY, the concept of having demonstrator beamline instances gave us valuable input on how to move forward: E.g. it was difficult to agree on what meta data actually is, what SciCat shall be used for. Initially, we went from ingesting what is technically possible to developing an uniformed validation layer before ingestion.
A few more features need to be implemented to SciCat before the user can find the catalogue actually useful. Main focus for this year is prototyping a DOI Landing Page server to eventually provide DOIs for DESY data. As one of the next tasks we want to make SciCat run efficiently for all beamlines at DESY, a strategy how to achieve system’s stability, robustness and reliability is highlighted. Finally, it is foreseen to take over concerns accessing the data itself and integration with analysis tools.
This work is highly beneficial for the DAPHNE4NFDI community and within this national programme, DESY has the opportunity to provide an open data catalogue for numerous national institutions. Some details of this pilot service are depicted and conceptional ideas are presented.
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