Proyecto OPENDATA4ICTS

The optimal use of research infrastructures requires that the wider scientific community has adequate access to the data produced. This requires that data are produced and stored in a way that makes them easy to access. For that purpose, the FAIR principles (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, Reusability), have been stated and developed.

The accelerator based ICTS, CNA and CMAM, which form the distributed net IABA, produce an important set of data in each accelerator experiment which is carried out. Typically, these experiments produce a set of counts, in different detectors of a detector array, which should be complemented with data of the accelerator diagnostics. Such wealth of data is often lost after each analysis, in such a way that the users only refer to a count rate, where some background subtraction and fitting is performed. In many other cases data is stored in specific formats which make impractical any initiative for reusage. A proper storage of the raw data obtained from the accelerator-based experiments, along with the relevant metadata, would be very useful. It would allow systematic analysis of the data of different experiments, different detector arrays and different facilities. This would allow to improve data analysis procedures, making use of a backload of data from previous experiments.

To define this internal data management, a data policy has been drafted, which can be accessed via the following link.

Data Policy IABA-ICTS

Since each of the techniques used at the CNA requires different parameters to contextualize the measurements, a set of metadata has been defined for each of them. Below is a series of descriptive documents outlining these metadata.

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