Ingest

Automate data importing

Annotate

Enrich your data

Find

Browse and search your data

Publish

Add DOI and share

FAIR data

SciCat is an important building block to implement a FAIR data management policy

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Integrate, Extend, and Automate

Easily extend functionality through the RESTful OpenAPI. Automate connecting to message systems.

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Modern Technology Stack

Built on Node.js, Angular, Nest.js and MongoDB

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Open Source

Fully open source with a committed and welcoming team of developers.

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Latest Releases

Backend: Elastic Search, v4.4.0 | Frontend: Elastic Search, v4.4.0

Facilities

European Spallation Source
Paul Scherrer Institut
MAX IV
Rosalind Franklin Institute
Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum
Advanced Light Source
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY
Synchrotron SOLEIL
DAta from PHoton and Neutron Experiments

Team

Project Leader
Max Novelli
European Spallation Source
Documentation Leader
Laura Shemilt
Rosalind Franklin Institute
PR and Issue Review Leader
Björn Pedersen
Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum
Release Jobs Leader
Spencer Bliven
PSI
Release Search UI Leader
Igor Khokhriakov
DESY

Collaborators

Junjie Quan
European Spallation Source
Carlo Minotti
Paul Scherrer Institut
Dylan McReynolds
Advance Light Source
Javier Perez
Synchrotron SOLEIL
Majid Ounsy
Synchrotron SOLEIL
Patrick Madela
Synchrotron SOLEIL

Efforts

Release Jobs
Complete migration and refactor of jobs in backend v4.x
https://github.com/orgs/SciCatProject/projects/3
Leader: Daphne Van Dijken
Release Search UI
Improving usability of frontend search UI and adding needed functionality to backend
https://github.com/orgs/SciCatProject/projects/5
Leader: Igor Khokhriakov
pySciCat
Low level python library that offers each endpoint as function in python. It requires a good level of knowledge of SciCat backend. Suggested for developing third party applications that will interface with SciCat, like data ingestors, dedicated custom UIs, or ETL processes retrieving data from and storing results in SciCat
https://github.com/SciCatProject/pyscicat
Scitacean
High level python library hiding all the inner intricacies of SciCat. It is designed for users concentrating on data analysis, exploratory tasks. It allows the user to transparently retrieve existing datasets and creating new ones with only few lines of code. It also provide functionalities for data transferring.
https://github.com/SciCatProject/scitacean

Documentation

Official github project
All software packages that are part of the SciCat ecosystem are in the Github project. For documentation see each project.
Official github project
User Guides
Experience SciCat as a user
User Guides
Get Started
To get started with a standalone installation of SciCat and to know more about how to add it to your infrastructure visit the SciCat Live repository.
Get Started
Backend
For developer documentation on the SciCat backend.
Backend
Frontend
For more information on the SciCat frontend and developer documentation.
Frontend
pySciCat
The pyscicat project is a python client library to interact with the SciCat backend.
pySciCat
Scitacean
Scictacean is a high level python packaging for uploading and downloading data to and from SciCat.
Scitacean