diff --git a/content/collaboration/communication/monthly-meetings/2024-meetings/20240627-meeting.md b/content/collaboration/communication/monthly-meetings/2024-meetings/20240627-meeting.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..5d10d1b5c --- /dev/null +++ b/content/collaboration/communication/monthly-meetings/2024-meetings/20240627-meeting.md @@ -0,0 +1,142 @@ +--- +title: ICAT Collaboration Meeting 27th June 2024 +date: 2024-06-27 +chair: Andy +scribe: Louise +--- + +## Attendance +Attendees: + - Andy Gotz + - Louise Davies + - Kirsty Syder + - Kevin Phipps + - Malik Almohammad + - Santhosh Anandarama + - Viktor Bozhinov + - Alex de Maria + - Alan Kyffin + + +## Agenda + +### SciCatCon + +Kevin: is anyone else attending? Alex? +Alex: was interested, but didn't hear anything since initial email + +Andy: should be able to attend remotely? +Louise: yes, there's a remote attendance option on the indico + +Andy: Parameters: Does SciCAT have nested? +Louise: yes, think so. However, they mentioned having trouble with theirs - hard to assert/search parameters when they're so flexible. + +### repo.icatproject.org + +Andy: is this fixed +STFC: yes, apologies this was broken by migrating VMs to upgrade the OS. External network configuration was broken but it worked internally. + +### NOBUGS + +Need to create an indico page to get numbers of attendance so room can be organised. + +STFC will send a couple of people. + +Andy: Register ASAP: only 160 seats & already 120 potentially filled by speakers +Kevin: when does registration open? +Andy: open now https://indico.esrf.fr/event/114/registrations/ + +Can just register just for satellite(s) or the main conference as well. + +Multiple talks from ICAT people at main conference (5) : https://indico.esrf.fr/event/114/search?q=icat + +## Site Updates + +### SESAME + +No big updates. + +Finished cybersecurity assessment. After, addressed weakness points - especially glassfish. Will share report at next meeting most likely. + +Still only accessible on internal network + +Plan to start using DataPortal with the public next week. + +Andy: how many other sites using glassfish? +Rest mostly using Payara +Alan: shouldn't really make a difference + +Main problem is all services running in same environment. Separate DataPortal onto separate VM is likely safer. + +WAF (Web applicaiton firewall) - ESRF looking into implementing + +### ESRF + +Processed data - 10 beamlines using. High demand for this, initially macromolecular crystollography, but expanding to more techniques. Happy with performance - going smoothly and faster than ispyb. + +Collaborate with DESY for crystallography. Going to go over and help them set it all up including ICAT. Thinking about packaging to make this easier. + +Andy: should get extra money for that, maybe EOSC? + +Andy: feedback from scientists re: electronic logbooks. Difficult as they compare with google docs! (high bar) + +Malik: Would be interested in Alex' collaboration - they have tomography beamlines. + +### ISIS + +Santhosh: user office integration is complete - in testing. +Andy: is this a new user office software? +Santhosh: no, migration from SOAP to REST +Andy: thought new user office - thought they were interested in using ESS UO. +Louise & Kevin: Proposals system has been migrated and is using ESS solution. + +Andy: chatbots integrated with Data portals - Elettra already have good feedback on their chatbot. +Alex: user wants to browse data via chatting. LLM solution (Mistral) is quite promising. Integration with logbook - can ask what happened e.g. overnight +One issue is authorization + +### DLS + +Had demo of the DOI functionality from Louise & Patrick. Slowly working through approval from executive and legal. Has some agreement on only raw data + +Also, Rocky 9 upgrades. + +Andy: NOBUGS2024 poster on legal issues from DLS +Kirsty: yes, someone using LLMs/ChatGPT to analyse abstracts. Interested to see the poster... + + +## Component Updates + +### icat.server + +Reverted a change which caused incompatability between new ICAT snapshot and python-icat + + +## AOB + +### download statistics + +DAPHNE: DOI landing page download statistics +Louise: could do basics with google analytics - we have basic page tracking +Alan: we use 3rd party service for some of our other services + +Kevin: we have an admin download page in DG to track what the current retrieval status + +Kevin: we do have an apprentice working on an ICAT dashboard project +We did have old dashboard, but stopped working on it - were some GDPR concerns + +### DOI stuff + +Andy: Data Portal shows users emails e.g. on summary page +Louise: we don't - don't want to get into that can of worms! +Andy: meeting at ESRF to discuss it + +Andy: datacite API - old one (schema 3) depcrecated, must move to schema 4 before end of the year +Louise/Kevin: new API DLS mentioned is using new one, some legacy services using old one + +### IDS + +Alex: difference between data volume between DB filesize and filesize on disk. If different then download could fail. We now check both DB filesize and disk size. We've fixed it. + +Andy: tar vs zip - users had requested to use tar. +Kevin: Should be able to use tar - as either config option or api param perhaps +Also, zip compression option doesn't work - DLS user pointed this out for us diff --git a/content/collaboration/communication/monthly-meetings/2024-meetings/index.md b/content/collaboration/communication/monthly-meetings/2024-meetings/index.md index 2d6402c11..d17d440bc 100644 --- a/content/collaboration/communication/monthly-meetings/2024-meetings/index.md +++ b/content/collaboration/communication/monthly-meetings/2024-meetings/index.md @@ -13,3 +13,5 @@ title: 2024 Meetings [25th April 2024](/collaboration/communication/monthly-meetings/2024-meetings/20240425-meeting) [30th May 2024](/collaboration/communication/monthly-meetings/2024-meetings/20240530-meeting) + +[27th June 2024](/collaboration/communication/monthly-meetings/2024-meetings/20240627-meeting)