Author: Klemke, B.
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THPDP014 SECoP and SECoP@HMC - Metadata in the Sample Environment Communication Protocol 1322
 
  • K. Kiefer, B. Klemke, L. Rossa, P. Wegmann
    HZB, Berlin, Germany
  • G. Brandl, E. Faulhaber, A. Zaft
    MLZ, Garching, Germany
  • N. Ekström, A. Pettersson
    ESS, Lund, Sweden
  • J. Kotanski, T. Kracht
    DESY, Hamburg, Germany
  • M. Zolliker
    PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
 
  Funding: The project SECoP@HMC receives funding by the Helmholtz Association’s Initiative and Networking Fund (IVF).
The integration of sample environment (SE) equipment in x-ray and neutron experiments is a complex challenge both in the physical world and in the digital world. Dif-ferent experiment control software offer different interfac-es for the connection of SE equipment. Therefore, it is time-consuming to integrate new SE or to share SE equipment between facilities. To tackle this problem, the International Society for Sample Environment (ISSE, [1]) developed the Sample Environment Communication Protocol (SECoP) to standardize the communication between instrument control software and SE equipment [2]. SECoP offers, on the one hand, a generalized way to control SE equipment. On the other hand, SECoP holds the possibility to transport SE metadata in a well-defined way. In addition, SECoP provides machine readable self-description of the SE equipment which enables a fully automated integration into the instrument control soft-ware and into the processes for data storage. Using SECoP as a common standard for controlling SE equipment and generating SE metadata will save resources and intrinsi-cally give the opportunity to supply standardized and FAIR data compliant SE metadata. It will also supply a well-defined interface for user-provided SE equipment, for equipment shared by different research facilities and for industry. In this article will show how SECoP can help to provide a meaningful and complete set of metadata for SE equipment and we will present SECoP and the SECoP@HMC project supported by the Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration.
*K. Kiefer, et al. (2020). An introduction to SECoP - the sample environment communication protocol. Journal of Neutron Research, 21(3-4), pp.181-195
 
DOI • reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-THPDP014  
About • Received ※ 06 October 2023 — Revised ※ 10 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 14 December 2023 — Issued ※ 22 December 2023
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