SciCatCon Meeting 2024

2 Jul 2024, 13:00 → 4 Jul 2024, 16:00 Europe/Zurich

OHSA/E13

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

13:00 → 14:00 SciCat status update

13:00 SciCat opening

13:20 Search release update

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

13:40 Jobs release update

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

14:00 → 15:00 Facilities' update part 1

14:00 ESS

14:20 DESY

14:40 MAXIV

15:00 → 15:20 Coffee break

15:20 → 17:00 Facilities' update part 2

15:20 MLZ

15:40 PSI

16:00 RFI

16:20 SOLEIL

16:40 ALS

Wednesday, 3 July

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

An overview of what we learned from past releases

09:30 → 10:30 Users' feedback: part 1

10:30 → 10:50 Coffee break

10:50 → 11:30 Users' feedback: part 2

11:30 → 12:00 Users' Q&A

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 15:00 Selection of 2024/2025 releases with related priorities

15:00 → 15:20 Coffee break

15:20 → 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

11:40 → 12:00 Final remarks

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