ICAT F2F Meeting – Berlin – 3rd and 4th May 2023

See also:

• the indico site,
• the collaborative notes from the first day,
• the collaborative notes from the second day,
• the notes on the ICAT Roadmap.

Agenda

Processed Data (Wednesday, 3rd May, 09:30)

• DOI and User Upload (Alexander Kemp)
• Processed Data at ESRF (Alex de Maria)
• PIDs for Raw Data and Data Publications at HZB (Rolf Krahl, no slides)

Metadata in ICAT (Experiment Parameters, Samples) (Wednesday, 3rd May, 11:00)

• Dataset Parameters at HZB (Rolf Krahl)
• Experiment Parameters at the ESRF (Marjolaine Bodin)
• ICAT Metadata at Diamond (Steve Collins)
• Samples at ISIS and Diamond (Kevin Phipps, no slides)

Performance Issues (Wednesday, 3rd May, 13:00)

• ICAT Performance: Rules and Public Steps (Patrick Austin)
• ICAT and SciCat Evaluation (Kevin Phipps)
• Improving ICAT Performance (Kevin Phipps, not presented during the meeting)

Front-End (Wednesday, 3rd May, 14:30)

• DataGateway (Louise Davies)
• ESRF Datahub (Alex de Maria)

Community Engagement (Wednesday, 3rd May, 16:30)

• ICAT Community Life (Andy Götz)

ICAT Roadmap (Thursday, 4th May, 09:00)

Container and Orchestration, Packaging (Thursday, 4th May, 10:30)

• Some Preliminary Work on Containerising Front-End Components (Alan Kyffin, no slides)
• A Docker Image for ICAT and Deployment at HZB (Rolf Krahl)
• ICAT – Kubernetes Deployment at Alba (Rodrigo Cabezas Quirós)
• Metadata Ingest Using python-icat (Rolf Krahl)

Misc techbits (Thursday, 4th May, 13:00)

• ICAT Free Text Search (Patrick Austin)
• DataGateway API & Search API (Viktor Bozhinov)
• Link ICAT with a Keycloak SSO (Rolf Krahl)

Open Discussion, Conclusion (Thursday, 4th May, 15:00)

• Some Considerations on Samples (Rolf Krahl)