Collaboration meeting in Paris 2011

Agenda

09:45	ILL	Holger Gebhard
10:00	ISIS and TopCAT	Tom Griffin
10:15	CLF	Steve Fisher
10:40	ELETTRA	Fabio Bonaccorso
11:15	Discussion on parameters
13:30	Discussion- Reporting in ICAT (usage reporting, scientific stats)
15:30	DOIs at STFC	Tom Griffin
	MySQL Support	Tom Griffin
15:45	I2S2? – Personal ICAT	Brian Matthews
16:15	Discussion- DOIs

Headline Discussion Points

• ISIS and ILL to joint release their ICATs ~27th Feb 2007
• TopCAT and Mantid as the interface for ISIS. ILL own interface
• Central Laser Facility using ICAT to store laser diagnostic data (not metadata + data)
• Parameters – agreement to extend types (string, number, DateTime? + int + boolean)
• Agreed change to parameter search API (simplification without loss of power)
• 'Reporting': ISIS to add system for 'usage tracking'; ILL interested in more powerful querying (OLAP cubes?)
• Authorisation model: agreement in principle to add groups and limited rules for instrument scientists
• Agreement to remove XMLIngest from main API to (optional) plugin API
• Plans for improvement on documentation and error handling
• STFC/ISIS will be issuing DOIs to all experiment datasets from 1st March (ILL interesting in doing the same but longer timescale)
• A basic MySQL version of ICAT is being tested
• Discussion on whether ICAT is an appropriate solution for storing some palaeontology datasets at ESRF

Actions Record

New	Description	Resp	Status	Comment
16.00	Document the meeting	TG/AM	Done	–
16.01	Distribute a discussion paper on authorisation model	TG		03/2011
16.02	Move xmlingest to a separate package	TG	–	icat4
16.03	Prepare a road map for icat4	TG/SN	–	03/2011
16.04	Provide a design for 'management' reporting'	JR	i/p	03/2011
16.05	Provide information on BIRT – Business Intelligence	HG	–	03/2011
16.06	Review the API documentation and lead/co-ordinate efforts to improve	AM/SF	–	03/2011
16.07	Provide exemplar documentation of one class in the API	SF	–	03/2011
16.08	Provide an exemplar of enhancements to the API (parameter searching)	SF/AM	–	03/2011
16.09	Provide additional exceptions in the API	SF/AM	–	03/2011
16.10	Provide a discussion paper on the use of DOI with ICAT	BM/SN	–	03/2011
16.11	Extend parameter types to match programming language/NeXus?	SF	–	03/2011

Attendees

• SP Stephane Poirier – Soleil
• TG Tom Griffin – STFC
• HG Holger Gebhard – ILL
• SF Steve Fisher – STFC
• AM Alistair Mills – STFC
• HJ Heinz-Joesph Weyer – PSI
• FA Freddy Akeroyd – STFC
• JR Jessica Robinson – STFC
• BM Brian Matthews – STFC
• DH Dietmar Herrendorer – HZB
• CJ Christian Jung – HZB
• JF Jean-François Perin – ILL
• JX Jamie ? – ILL
• AG Andy Gotz – ESRF
• JK Jorg Klora – ALBA
• MX Magid ? – Solei

Apologies

• SN Sri Nagella – STFC
• RS Richard Sinclair – STFC
• FB Fabio Bonnacorso – ELETTRA
• RD Roger Downing- STFC
• RF Ron Fowler- STFC
• GKM Ghita Kouadri Mostefaoui – Diamond