STFC's ISIS Neutron and Muon Source facility is a world-leading centre for research in the physical and life sciences at the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford in the United Kingdom. Our suite of neutron and muon instruments gives unique insights into the properties of materials on the atomic scale.

ISIS has been using ICAT since 2007 to catalogue raw data produced from all instruments. The data catalogue can be accessed at https://data.isis.stfc.ac.uk/.

ISIS instruments produce NeXus files, although much of the historical data is in a facility specific 'ISIS raw' format. Metadata is extracted from these files and added to the catalogue to improve findability in the data discovery process. All data produced at ISIS since 1984 has been catalogued and is available, in line with the ISIS data policy.

The ingestion pipeline is made up of a few .NET applications which communicate over an ActiveMQ instance. The repository containing the pipeline code is currently private, but we're working on making it public.

ISIS uses DataGateway as the web interface to data, and the catalogue is also available in Mantid, via the ICAT API. A disk only IDS is used to provide the data to users over https. Authentication is handled by the ISIS facilities system.

ISIS also issues DOIs for investigations using DataCite.

Please contact isisdata@stfc.ac.uk if you have any questions about our ICAT setup.