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# System prepended metadata

title: Extending the ICAT metadata catalogue to new scientific use cases

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*This is a draft abstract for ICALEPCS 2023 (https://icalepcs2023.org) on ICAT please take a look and add your input and comments and name if you want to. I have put some names but it is just a proposal. It would be good to include all those who want to contribute and add some input on their installation or component(s). The idea is to describe the current status of the software, collaboration and the extensions like icatplus etc.*

Guidelines for authors: https://icalepcs2023.org/authors/abstract-submission/

Presentation type: Oral?

Abstract text should not exceed 1600 characters.


# Extending the ICAT metadata catalogue to new scientific use cases

## Alex de Maria, Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran, Marjolaine Bodin, Kevin Phipps, Patrick Austin, Louise Davies, Rolf Krahl, Malik AlMohammad, Salman Maltagh, Andy Götz, Matthew Richards, Viktor Bozhinov, Allan Pinto ...

### Abstract

The ICAT metadata catalogue is a flexible solution for managing scientific metadata and data from a wide variety of domains following the FAIR data principles. This paper will present an update of recent developments of the ICAT metadata catalogue and the latest status of the ICAT collaboration. ICAT was originally developed by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC, UK) to manage the scientific data of ISIS Neutron and Muon Source (ISIS) and Diamond Light Source (DLS). They have since been joined by a number of other institutes including ESRF, HZB, SESAME, Sirius, and ALBA who together now form the ICAT Collaboration [1]. ICAT has been used to manage petabytes of scientific data for ISIS, DLS, ESRF, HZB, and in the future SESAME, Sirius, and ALBA and make these data FAIR. The latest version of the ICAT core as well as the new user interfaces, DataGateway and DataHub, and extensions to ICAT for implementing free text searching, a common search interface across Photon and Neutron catalogues, a protocol-based interface that allows making the metadata available for findability, electronic logbooks, sample tracking, and web-based data viewers developed by the community will be presented. Recent developments to use ICAT to develop applications for processed data with rich metadata in the fields of small angle scattering, macromolecular crystallography and cryo-electron microscopy will be described.

[1] https://icatproject.org 
