ICAT F2F at STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, November 2017

Component Updates

• ICAT Server (Steve Fisher)
• ICAT Manager (Alex de Maria Antolinos)
• Python-ICAT (Rolf Krahl)
• ICAT Data Service: past year (Steve Fisher) / next year (Rolf Krahl)
• TopCat (Brian Ritchie)
• ICAT Job Portal (Brian Ritchie)
• Multi-container support (Steve Fisher)
• ICAT Dashboard (Tom Griffin)
• DAAS Developments (Frazer Barnsley)

Guest Speakers

• Institute of Cancer Research (ICR)
• Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI)

Site Updates

• Diamond Light Source (DLS)
• ESRF (Alex de Maria Antolinos)
• HZB (Rolf Krahl)
• STFC – ISIS (Jamie Shears)

ICAT Developments at HZB (Rolf Krahl)

Schema Changes

• Schema Change Suggestions (Rolf Krahl)
• Ideas for ICAT's future direction (Steve Fisher)

Data Volumes

• Increases in data volumes and the challenges this brings (Andrew Richards)
• ESRF long term archiving approach (Alex de Maria Antolinos)

Development processes and experiences

• Experience writing a TopCat plugin (Alex de Maria Antolinos)
• Changes to the collaborative process (Stuart Pullinger)