ICAT: Integrating Data Infrastructure for Facilities Based Science

Scientific facilities, in particular large-scale photon and neutron sources, have demanding requirements to manage the increasing quantities of experimental data they generate in a systematic and secure way. In this paper, we describe the ICAT infrastructure for cataloguing facility-generated experi...

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Hauptverfasser:	Flannery, D., Matthews, B., Griffin, T., Bicarregui, J., Gleaves, M., Lerusse, L., Downing, R., Ashton, A., Sufi, S., Drinkwater, G., Kleese, K.
Format:	Tagungsbericht
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE COMPUTER CODES Conference management data curation data management DESIGN Europe facilities IMPLEMENTATION Intersymbol interference Laboratories Large scale integration Light sources MANAGEMENT metadata neutron source NEUTRON SOURCES Neutrons Photonics PHOTONS PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS PROGRAMMING Software performance synchrotron source Synchrotrons
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Zusammenfassung:	Scientific facilities, in particular large-scale photon and neutron sources, have demanding requirements to manage the increasing quantities of experimental data they generate in a systematic and secure way. In this paper, we describe the ICAT infrastructure for cataloguing facility-generated experimental data which has been in development within STFC and DLS for several years. We consider the factors which have influenced its design and describe its architecture and metadata model, a key tool in the management of data. We go on to give an outline of its current implementation and use, with plans for its future development.
DOI:	10.1109/e-Science.2009.36