SciCatCon 2025

24 Jun 2025, 12:00 → 26 Jun 2025, 12:00 Europe/Copenhagen

Mandarin/Apricot (Data Management and Software Center)

Massimiliano Novelli (European Spallation Source ERIC)

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Welcome to SciCatCon 2025.

We are pleased to announce the 2025 edition of SciCatCon, the 4th in-person meeting dedicated to SciCat, the scientific metadata catalog. The 2025 edition of the meeting will be hosted by DMSC division of ESS, in their brand new offices located on the DTU campus in the vicinity of Copenhagen, Denmark's capital.

Two days open to all users and experts of the SciCat platform. A unique opportunity for everybody to provide priceless feedback, discuss technical details, deployment solutions, new features, user developed applications and data curation challenges.

The meeting will have the format that has been successfully tested in the last two editions:

• Day 1 (half day)
  • Afternoon: Opening, features presentation and institutions updates
• Day 2 (full day)
  • Morning: User sessions, users feedback
  • Afternoon: Developer sessions 1
• Day 3 (half day)
  • Early morning: Developer session 2
  • Late morning: Closing remarks and future plans

We would like to see you to SciCatCon 2025. 
Bring your energy, your expertise and your vision.

Register and reserve your spot at SciCatCon 2025. Available spots are limited.
Registration will close on midnight of May 25th, 2025.

If you need a visa to enter Denmark, please consult the Practicalities section for more information.

The organizing committee

PRIVACY_STATEMENT.pdf

Tuesday, 24 June ¶

12:00 → 13:00 Registration¶

13:00 → 13:15 Welcome: Opening and Welcome¶

Convener: Massimiliano Novelli (European Spallation Source ERIC)

13:15 → 13:35 Project Update: Overview¶

Convener: Massimiliano Novelli (European Spallation Source ERIC)

13:35 → 13:55 Project Update: Jobs subsystem¶

Conveners: Despina Adamopoulou (Empa), Spencer Bliven (Paul Scherrer Institute)

13:55 → 14:15 Project Update: SDK¶

Convener: Junjie Quan (European Spallation Source ERIC)

14:15 → 14:30 Facilities Updates: PSI¶

Convener: Carlo Minotti (PSI)

14:30 → 14:45 Facilities Updates: RFI¶

Convener: Laura Shemilt (The Rosalind Franklin Institute)

14:45 → 15:00 Facilities Updates: SOLEIL¶

Convener: Patrick MADELA (SOLEIL)

15:00 → 15:15 Facilities Updates: ILL¶

Convener: Matthieu Migne

15:15 → 15:35 Coffee break

15:35 → 15:50 Facilities Updates: DESY¶

Convener: Regina Hinzmann

15:50 → 16:05 Facilities Updates: MLZ¶

Convener: Alexander Zaft (JCNS-4 at MLZ)

16:05 → 16:20 Facilities Updates: FHNW¶

Convener: Tania Welter (FHNW)

16:20 → 16:35 Facilities Updates: MaxIV¶

Convener: Emil Gunnarsson (MAX IV)

16:35 → 16:50 Facilities Updates: DAPHNE / Kiel University¶

Convener: Nicolas Hayen (Kiel University)

16:50 → 17:05 Facilities Updates: ESS¶

Convener: Junjie Quan (European Spallation Source ERIC)

Wednesday, 25 June ¶

09:00 → 09:20 Lessons learned, 2025 edition: Lessons learnt, 2025 edition¶

09:20 → 09:50 Users' feedback and contributions: Scicat for Powder Diffraction at ESS¶

Convener: Dr Celine Durniak (European Spallation Source ERIC)

09:50 → 10:30 Keynote: SciCat Performance Assessment¶

Convener: Igor Khokhriakov (DESY)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 11:30 Users' feedback and contributions: Scitacean: User-oriented SciCat client for Python¶

Convener: Jan-Lukas Wynen (European Spallation Source ERIC)

11:30 → 12:10 Users' feedback and contributions: Datasets granularity and the reduction workflow¶

Convener: Matthieu Migne

12:10 → 12:30 Users' feedback and contributions: TBD¶

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:45 Planning and Technical discussions: Selection 2025/2026 priorities¶

14:45 → 15:15 Coffee break

15:15 → 16:30 Planning and Technical discussions: Hands-on and brainstorming 1¶

18:00 → 20:00 Social DInner

Thursday, 26 June ¶

09:00 → 11:00 Planning and Technical discussions: Hands-on and brainstorming 2¶

11:00 → 11:20 Coffee break

11:20 → 11:40 Closing: Meeting summary¶

11:40 → 12:00 Closing: Closing remarks¶