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Description
Metadata have become an integral aspect to scientists to work with experimental data due to the more complex machinery used during data acquisition and also the vast amount of data produced at experimental sites.
Publication of scientific results often require the publication of the raw and analysed data. DOIs, digital object identifiers, for collected and analyzed data are therefore often mandatory in journal publications. The FAIR data movement contributes to this efforts and many other initiatives in this direction were made.
At DESY, metadata management in photon science is established using SciCat, a science catalogue for basic cataloguing functionalities and eventual DOI minting. With national initiatives, in particular DAPHNE4NFDI, the SciCat project has grown even more and SciCat at DESY has become a cornerstone for making data FAIR.
This contribution outlines the deployment journey of the data cataloguing and minting service - from development to production. We explain the assisted process for the user to mint a DOI including the case of actual data access requests. We highlight the elements to ensure robustness, stability and functionality in our system and present efforts and commitment to the SciCat collaboration. Scalability and easy maintaince play an important role as we plan to make it available for more DESY beamlines. We also give prospects of how to enhance the usefulness of SciCat at DESY by integration to further site-specific critical systems as library and storage.
