4–6 Nov 2024
virtual event
Europe/Berlin timezone

Standardised Metadata Provision in the Communication Protocol SECoP - SECoP@HMC

4 Nov 2024, 16:00
1h
Poster Hall

Poster Hall

POSTER&PITCH 5. Technical solutions for findable and machine-readable metadata Poster Session C

Speaker

Klaus Kiefer (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin)

Description

The Sample Environment Communication Protocol (SECoP) provides a generalized way for controlling measurement equipment – with a special focus on sample environment (SE) equipment [1,2]. In addition, SECoP holds the possibility to transport SE metadata in a well-defined way.

SECoP is designed to be
- simple to use,
- inclusive concerning different control systems and control philosophies and
- self-explaining providing a machine readable description of all available data and metadata.

The project SECoP@HMC focuses on the standardised provision of metadata for typical SE equipment at large scale facilities (photons, neutrons, high magnetic fields) and on standardized metadata storage. The fact that SECoP is self-explaining and machine-readable favours the automated interpretation of data and metadata. With the latest definition of SECoP, we were able to integrate the use of vocabularies or glossaries.

With the ongoing development of SECoP and the provision of several tools for its easy implementation, a complete standardized system for controlling SE equipment and collecting and saving SE metadata is available and usable for experimental control systems. This approach can be applied to other research areas as well.

I this presentation we will report on the current status of the project SECoP@HMC.

[1] K. Kiefer, et al. (2020). An introduction to SECoP – the sample environment communication protocol. Journal of Neutron Research, 21(3-4), pp.181–195
[2] https://github.com/sampleenvironment/secop

In addition, please add 3 to 5 keywords.

sample environment, communication protocol, machine readable

Please assign yourself (presenting author) to one of the following groups. Scientists and technicians who maintain and operate research infrastructure for data generation
For whom will your contribution be of most interest? Scientists and technicians who maintain and operate research infrastructure for data generation

Primary author

Klaus Kiefer (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin)

Co-authors

Alexander Zaft (Forschungzentrum Jülich) Anders Pettersson (European Spallation Source) Bastian Klemke (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin) Enrico Faulhaber (Forschungs-Neutronenquelle Heinz Maier-Leibnitz) Georg Brandl (Forschungzentrum Jülich) Gerrit Guenther (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin) Jan Kotanski (Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron DESY) Lutz Rossa (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin) Marc Uhlarz (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf) Markus Zolliker (Paul Scherrer Institut) Niklas Ekström (European Spallation Source) Peter Braun (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin) Thorsten Kracht (Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron DESY)

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