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

SciCat status update

1 SciCat opening

2 Search release update

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

3 Jobs release update

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

Facilities' update part 1

4 ESS

5 DESY

6 MAXIV

15:00 Coffee break

Facilities' update part 2

7 MLZ

8 PSI

9 RFI

10 SOLEIL

11 ALS

Wednesday, 3 July

Lessons learned from 2023 releases

An overview of what we learned from past releases

Users' feedback: part 1

10:30 Coffee break

Users' feedback: part 2

Users' Q&A

12:00 Lunch

Selection of 2024/2025 releases with related priorities

15:00 Coffee break

Planning of the selected proposals: part 1

Social dinner

Thursday, 4 July

Planning of the selected proposals: part 2

11:00 Coffee

Previous days summary/dissemination/commitment

Final remarks

Tour of PSI for the ones registered