ICAT: Integrating Data Infrastructure for Facilities Based Science

Authors:
Damian Flannery;Brian Matthews;Tom Griffin;Juan Bicarregui;Michael Gleaves;Laurent Lerusse;Roger Downing;Alun Ashton;Shoaib Sufi;Glen Drinkwater;Kerstin Kleese
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Venue:
E-SCIENCE '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Fifth IEEE International Conference on e-Science
Year:
2009

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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.