NOBUGS 2026

Building on previous work on the ICAT-based ESRF Data Portal (https://icatproject.org, https://data.esrf.fr) presented at earlier NOBUGS editions, this talk explores the next challenge: making metadata richer, more structured, and more findable, interoperable, and reusable. Our goal is to maximize scientific impact by enabling data reuse and reproducibility, capturing structured metadata...

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...

Scientific datasets rarely stand alone. Raw data, processed derivatives, and experimental metadata are deeply related, but most data services store them as if they aren't. At the Advanced Light Source, we've been working on closing that gap.
We use Tiled, from the Bluesky project, as our primary catalog and data service. As we built applications on top of it, embedding URLs in metadata fields...

TIFF is a popular format to store multi-dimensional scientific images in. European Spallation Source ERIC (ESS) will also provide reduced TIFF image stacks to our imaging technique users.

At ESS, we use a data catalogue framework(scicat) to comply with the FAIR data policy. However, the physical properties of reduced data are not always possible to be inherited from parent datasets or...

European XFEL relies on multiple distributed services to support scientific operations, from proposal management through experiment preparation to data acquisition, analysis, and archiving. Keeping workflows coherent across these systems requires more than metadata exchange: it requires shared definitions, validation rules, and governance for how operational metadata is managed. At *European...