ICAT: Integrating Data Infrastructure for Facilities Based Science

Author

Flannery, Damian ; Matthews, Brian ; Griffin, Tom ; Bicarregui, Juan ; Gleaves, Michael ; Lerusse, Laurent ; Downing, Roger ; Ashton, Alun ; Sufi, Shoaib ; Drinkwater, Glen ; Kleese, Kerstin

Author_Institution

STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab., Didcot, UK

fYear

2009

fDate

9-11 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

201

Lastpage

207

Abstract

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.

Keywords

cataloguing; meta data; neutron sources; photons; physics computing; DLS; ICAT infrastructure; STFC; data infrastructure; data management; facility-generated experimental data cataloguing; large-scale photon sources; metadata model; neutron sources; scientific facilities; Conference management; Europe; Intersymbol interference; Laboratories; Large scale integration; Light sources; Neutrons; Photonics; Software performance; Synchrotrons; data curation; data management; facilities; metadata; neutron source; synchrotron source;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

e-Science, 2009. e-Science '09. Fifth IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Oxford

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3877-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/e-Science.2009.36

Filename

5380865