SciCatCon Meeting 2024

2 Jul 2024, 12:00 → 4 Jul 2024, 16:00 Europe/Zurich

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Please announce your arrival at PSI OST. An access badge will be handed over to you at the reception by mentionning that you are participating in the SciCAT meeting. 

 

SciCatCon Meeting 2024 is the 3rd in-person Annual development workshop for the scientific metadata catalogue: Scicat. This meeting brings together users, administrators and developers of SciCat, from various institutions, to discuss current and new features of the catalogue. This year the meeting is held in Villigen, CH, by the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI).

 

Due to demand, we have introduced an online participation. If you wish to join online only select "I will join online only" on the registration form.

 

The meeting is in the following format:

• Day 1:
  • Afternoon: Opening, features presentation and institution updates
• Day 2:
  • Morning: User session, users feedback
  • Afternoon: Developers session 1
• Day 3:
  • Early Morning: Developer session 2
  • Late Morning: OPEN, review and futures plan (available online and recorded)

If you are only interested in participating in one of the days please specify on the registration form. 

Registration Closes -14th Jun 2024.

Tuesday, 2 July

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 14:20 SciCat status update

13:00 SciCat opening

Speakers: Carlo Minotti (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut), Massimiliano Novelli (European Spallation Source)

13:20 Search release update

How the improved search functionality was developed and how it can be set

Speaker: Igor Khokhriakov (DESY)

13:40 Jobs release update

How the jobs functionality of dispatching events to non-scicat components was rethought and implemented

Speaker: Spencer Edward Bliven (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

14:00 SciCatLive release update

Speaker: Frédéric Potier (SOLEIL)

14:20 → 15:05 Facilities' update part 1

14:20 ESS

14:35 MLZ

14:50 MAXIV

15:05 → 15:25 Coffee break

15:25 → 16:45 Facilities' update part 2

15:25 RFI

15:40 SOLEIL

15:55 DIAMOND

16:10 ALS

16:25 DESY

Wednesday, 3 July

09:00 → 09:30 Lessons learned from 2023 releases

An overview of what we learned from past releases

Conveners: Massimiliano Novelli (European Spallation Source), Release People

09:30 → 10:30 Users' feedback

09:30 Beamline Experiment Control at PSI

Speaker: Klaus Wakonig (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

09:50 TOMCAT

Speaker: Goran Lovric (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

10:10 Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry at PSI

Speaker: Thorsten Bartels-Rausch (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

10:30 → 10:50 Coffee break

10:50 → 11:10 ICAT Keynote

Speaker: Louise Davies (Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC))

11:10 → 12:10 Grants overview

11:10 ETH-ORD overview

Speaker: Alun Ashton (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

11:20 openEM

Speaker: Spencer Edward Bliven (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

11:35 ETH-ORD M2

Speaker: Caterina Barillari (ETHZ)

11:50 CZI

Speaker: RFI RFI

12:10 → 13:10 Lunch

13:10 → 13:30 Grants overview

13:10 Link ML

Speaker: DESY DESY

13:30 → 15:10 Selection of 2024/2025 releases with related priorities

15:10 → 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 → 17:00 Planning of the selected proposals: part 1

18:00 → 22:00 Social dinner

Thursday, 4 July

09:00 → 11:00 Planning of the selected proposals: part 2

11:00 → 11:20 Coffee

11:20 → 11:40 Previous days summary/dissemination/commitment

Conveners: Carlo Minotti (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut), Massimiliano Novelli (European Spallation Source)

11:40 → 12:00 Final remarks

Convener: Carlo Minotti (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

13:00 → 15:00 Tour of PSI for the ones registered