DocumentCode :
3103650
Title :
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
Link To Document :
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