ICAT Collaboration Meeting - 26th February 2026
Attendance
Attendees:
- Rolf Krahl
- Louise Davies
- Kevin Phipps
- Malik Almohammad
- Patrick Austin
- Rodrigo Cabezas QuirĂ³s
Agenda
Site Updates
SESAME
No updates
HZB
Nothing to report
ESRF
No one attended, but in Marjolaine's apology email she mentioned adding the ICAT logo to the ESRF data portal
ISIS
Santhosh sent his apologies and this update
- Nothing major and Business as usual
- Updating IDS with the new domain (alias)
- Investigating the reported OAI-PMH service slowness issue
ALBA
Updated to ICAT 6.2 - no issues.
Published helm chart we presented. Relevant links:
- https://artifacthub.io/packages/helm/alba-helm-charts/icat-k8s/1.1.0
- https://github.com/ALBA-Synchrotron/icat-k8s
DLS
Demoing DOI functionality to Diamond legal & some scientists.
Component Updates
icat.client
icat.client v6.2.0 released last week.
RK: as ICAT 7 approaches, would be good to have snapshots of icat.server 7 and also corresponding client to be able to test with
icat.server
Nothing since F2F, schema change broke search indexing code. Currently just removed invalid indexing code, but need to add indexing for new relationships.
PA: I can have a look and do the change RK: PR #294, however won't have time to work on it in the next few weeks
ids.server
D3A group found some bugs in ids.server, range header issues. Will need to do a bugfix release for this, but code hasn't been worked on yet
AOB
F2F website update
Louise created a PR to create a page for the website - feel free to review/correct any mistakes: https://github.com/icatproject/icatproject.github.io/pull/250
D3A
Working group is continuing to work, HTTP status code for "not available right now" - will eventually formulate community standard or even an RFC