ICAT F2F Meeting

3 May 2023, 09:00 → 4 May 2023, 17:00 Europe/Berlin

Helmholtz Information & Data Science Academy

Collaborative Notes first day (03.05.)

Collaborative Notes second day (04.05.)

Meeting Link

Wednesday 3 May

09:00 → 09:30 Arrival & Welcome

09:30 → 11:00 Processed Data

Convener: Alex de Maria

09:30 Workplan for uploading data

Speaker: Alexander Kemp

DOI and Upload WTD.pptx

10:00 Processed data at ESRF

Speaker: Alex de Maria

ICAT f2f 2023 Processed data-1.pdf

11:00 → 12:00 Metadata in ICAT (Experiment Parameters, Samples)

Convener: Rolf Krahl (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie)

11:00 Dataset Parameters at HZB

Speaker: Rolf Krahl (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie)

params-hzb.pdf

11:10 Samples & Parameters at ESRF

Speaker: Marjolaine Bodin

20230503-ICAT-F2F.pdf

11:20 On Parameter Names

Speaker: Steve Collins

ICAT metadata collins may 2023.pptx

11:30 Samples at ISIS and Diamond

Speaker: Kevin Phipps

11:40 Discussion

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch Break

13:00 → 14:30 Performance Issues

Convener: Alex de Maria

13:00 An analysis of ICAT rules

Speaker: Patrick Austin

PerformanceFromRules.pdf

PerformanceFromRules.pptx

13:30 ICAT deployments to help performance and a summary of ICAT vs SciCat comparison

Speaker: Kevin Phipps

icat_and_scicat_performance_ICAT_F2F_Berlin_May_2023.pptx

improving_icat_performance_ICAT_F2F_Berlin_May_2023.pptx

14:30 → 16:00 Front-End

Convener: Louise Davies (STFC)

14:30 DataGateway: new features and workplan

Speaker: Louise Davies (STFC)

202304-ICATCollaboration-DataGateway.pptx

15:00 ESRF Datahub

Speaker: Alex de Maria

Frontend Data hub.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 → 17:30 Community Engagement

Convener: Andy Gotz (ESRF)

16:30 Community Engagement

Speaker: Andy Gotz (ESRF)

ICAT_Community_Life_2023.pdf

19:00 → 22:00 Social Dinner

Thursday 4 May

09:00 → 10:30 ICAT Roadmap

Convener: Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran

10:30 → 12:00 Container and Orchestration, Packaging

Mixed session with contributions on various technical topics

Convener: Rolf Krahl (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie)

10:30 Some Preliminary Work on Containerising Front-End Components

Speaker: Alan Kyffin

10:45 A Docker Image for ICAT and Deployment at HZB

Speaker: Rolf Krahl (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie)

docker-hzb.pdf

11:00 Docker Deployment at ALBA

Speaker: Rodrigo Cabezas Quirós

ICAT_deployment_Alba.pdf

11:15 Metadata Ingest using python-icat

Speaker: Rolf Krahl (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie)

ingest-python-icat.pdf

11:30 Discussion: how difficult is it to deploy ICAT

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch Break

13:00 → 14:30 Misc techbits

Convener: Rolf Krahl (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie)

13:00 Free Text Search

Speaker: Patrick Austin

LuceneChanesLong.pdf

LuceneChanesLong.pptx

13:20 Search API

Speaker: Viktor Bozhinov

DataGateway & Search API.pptx

13:40 Link ICAT with a Keycloak SSO

Speaker: Rolf Krahl (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie)

icat-sso.pdf

14:30 → 15:00 Coffee Break

15:00 → 16:00 Open Discussion, Conclusion

Discuss questions left over from the earlier sessions and conclude the meeting

15:00 Discussion on Samples

Speaker: Rolf Krahl (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie)

samples.pdf