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TY - CONF AU - Kiefer, K. AU - Brandl, G. AU - Ekström, N. AU - Faulhaber, E. AU - Klemke, B. AU - Kotanski, J. AU - Kracht, T. AU - Pettersson, A. AU - Rossa, L. AU - Wegmann, P. AU - Zaft, A. AU - Zolliker, M. ED - Schaa, Volker RW ED - Götz, Andy ED - Venter, Johan ED - White, Karen ED - Robichon, Marie ED - Rowland, Vivienne TI - SECoP and SECoP@HMC - Metadata in the Sample Environment Communication Protocol J2 - Proc. of ICALEPCS2023, Cape Town, South Africa, 09-13 October 2023 CY - Cape Town, South Africa T2 - International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems T3 - 19 LA - english AB - 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, ) developed the Sample Environment Communication Protocol (SECoP) to standardize the communication between instrument control software and SE equipment. 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. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 1322 EP - 1324 KW - controls KW - experiment KW - software KW - neutron KW - interface DA - 2024/02 PY - 2024 SN - 2226-0358 SN - 978-3-95450-238-7 DO - doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-THPDP014 UR - https://jacow.org/icalepcs2023/papers/thpdp014.pdf ER -