# ICAT Collaboration Face-to-Face Meeting

## Indico site and registration

https://events.hifis.net/event/778/

## Venue
Helmholtz Information & Data Science Academy,
Friedrichstraße 171, 10117 Berlin.

*Note*: This is /not/ at the HZB campus, but in the very city center in Berlin Mitte, see [OpenStreetMap](https://osm.org/go/0MbEd31CV-?m=)

The social dinner on Wednesday evening is at [Brauhaus GEORGBRAEU](https://www.georgbraeu.de/), see [OpenStreetMap](https://osm.org/go/0MbFgGxQ9--?m=)

## Dates
Wednesday 3rd and Thursday 4th May 2023

## Some options for hotels
At least 3 of us from STFC have already booked the Best Western Berlin Mitte

## Agenda

### Processed Data
+ Start: Wed 9:30
+ Duration: 1:30
+ Lead: Alex de Maria
+ Contributions:
- Alex Kemp on workplan for uploading data
- Alex de Maria on processed data at ESRF

### Metadata in ICAT (Experiment Parameters, Samples)
+ Start: Wed 11:00
+ Duration: 1:00h
+ Lead: Rolf Krahl
+ Contributions:
- Rolf Krahl on Dataset Parameters at HZB

### Performance Issues
+ Start: Wed 13:00
+ Duration: 1:30h
+ Lead: ?
+ Contributions:
- Patrick Austin on an analysis of ICAT rules
- Kevin Phipps on ICAT deployments to help performance and a summary of ICAT vs SciCat comparison

### Front-End
+ Start: Wed 14:30
+ Duration: 1:30h
+ Lead: STFC
+ Contributions:
- Louise Davies on new DataGateway features and workplan

### Community Engagement
+ Start: Start: Wed 16:30
+ Duration: 1:00h
+ Lead: Andy Gotz
+ Contributions:

### ICAT Roadmap
+ Start: Thu 9:00
+ Duration: 1:30
+ Lead: Alejandra Gonzalez Beltran
+ Contributions:
- all

### Container and Orchestration, Packaging
+ Start: Thu 10:30
+ Duration: 1:30h
+ Lead: Rolf Krahl
+ Contributions:
- Alan Kyffin on some preliminary work on containerising front-end components
- Rolf Krahl on Docker images for ICAT and deployment at HZB

### Misc techbits
+ Start: Thu 13:00
+ Duration: 1:30
+ Lead: Rolf Krahl
+ Contributions:
- Patrick Austin on Free text search
- Viktor Bozhinov on search API
- Rolf Krahl on linking ICAT with a Keycloak SSO

### Open Discussion, Conclusion
+ Start: Thu 15:00
+ Duration: 1:00h
+ Lead: ?
+ Contributions:

## Potential topics (please, add suggestions)

8 sessions

- ICAT Rules
**- Front-end development**
- **Updates from DataGateway** Louise
- **ESRF Data Portal (added by RK, to be confirmed by ESRF colleagues)**
- **Electronic Notebooks (updated by ESRF, HZB, ...) - should we include it as an ICAT module?

**- Packaging + distribution
- How to make ICAT easy to distirbute and install
- Containers and orchestration ++
- SOAP and REST interfaces (migrate away from SOAP?) ++
**- ICAT Roadmap/future of ICAT - how do we share things (eg. frontends, ELNs)++**
- **DataGateway API/ Search API**
- **Representation of experiment parameters, e.g. ideas for standardization of ParameterTypes**
- Representation of Samples (maybe add onto above?)
- Authentication and SSO (HZB, ALBA)
- Alternative database backends (just an idea, but I'd like to give PostgreSQL a try (RK))+
- the OAI-PMH component (if anybody is interested in that)
- **Processed data (AdM)**
- Offline workflows - allows user to upload data
- User uploaded data
- ISIS autoreduced data
- **Performance (AdM)**
- different ways to improve performance - rules, hardware, etc
- how to handle more volume (with processed data)
- How to manage the huge files table
- Maybe related to rules topic?
- Benchmarks (with different amounts of data)
- **OpenSearch (AdM, Patrick)**
- Remaining ICAT.server issues
- DOIs (Marjolaine)
- Ontologies use on ICAT - adding PaNET

**- Community**
- How to manage community growth (ALL)
- How to integrate a new community (ESRF)

## Attendees

PLEASE REGISTER AT THE INDICO SITE: https://events.hifis.net/event/778/

### In Person (please, add your name)

- Alan Kyffin (UKRI-STFC)
- Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran (UKRI-STFC)
- Beatriz Lorenzo (ALBA Synchrotron Light Source)
- Rodrigo Cabezas (ALBA Synchrotron Light Source)
- Kevin Phipps (UKRI-STFC)
- Louise Davies (UKRI-STFC)
- Patrick Austin (UKRI-STFC)
- Viktor Bozhinov (UKRI-STFC)
- Alex Kemp (UKRI-STFC)
- Marjolaine Bodin (ESRF)
- Rolf Krahl (HZB)
- Alejandro de Maria (ESRF)
- Andy Götz (ESRF)
- Malik Almohammad (SESAME)
### Remote (please, add your name)

- Alexandre Camps Mezquita (ALBA)
- Kirsty Syder (Diamond)
- Will Taylor (ISIS)
- Salman Matalgah (SESAME)