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DESY joined DESY the SciCat collaboration later than other big European laboratories. In Jan 2022 it was decided to adopt SciCat to DESY needs. Since then, IT has set up an OpenStack and Kubernetes infrastructure maintaining about 14 SciCat instances of which a handful are actively used. This infrastructure allows us to tackle various issues independently. 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, it was difficult to agree on what metadata 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.
The DESY proposal management system (DOOR) has its own way of identifying persons and organisations of granting access to the beamline for a certain beamtime. Access to data and access to computing resources are handled by yet another system (Gamma Portal) and need to be ported over to SciCat to allow for browsing and downloading data.
Within a national programme (DAPHNE), DESY has the opportunity to provide an open data catalogue for numerous national institutions. How this is technically solved is to be seen. Currently, various technologies are available and being sounded out.
Definitely, DESY aims to provide DOIs for DESY data. This workflow is currently investigated and to be implemented.
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