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Description
The OSCARS project represents a unique European collaboration that unites Research Infrastructures across the European Science Clusters (SCs) representing the key domains: environmental research, physics and astronomy, photon and neutron, social, and life sciences. At its core, OSCARS focuses on promoting open science and FAIR data principles and addresses this challenge by three primary objectives: consolidation of existing research data services, engagement with a broad network of stakeholders, and the uptake of open science principles.
The consolidation workpackage focuses on interoperability and introducing novel functionalities by metadata enrichment of existing services. One of the key opportunities of the Photon and Neutron community (PaNOSC) is assigning PIDs for beamlines.
While instrument PIDs (PIDINST) are already assigned to diverse instruments, beamline PIDs remain an evolving area, particularly regarding the creation of persistent landing pages with standardised metadata. As such, we are exploring Unified Data Sheets: web-based overviews on technical details of the DESY beamline setup, which are aligned with the Ways for Light (WFL) initiative. We seek to separate the web representation from the underlying data to streamline updates of beamline information, ensuring consistency across multiple services, including beamline webpages, DOI services, and WFL metadata. This modular design will streamline updates, ensure metadata consistency, and enable seamless integration across DESY’s beamline services.
