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In our HELIPORT workshop, we will provide insights into our project and share our results. In addition, we would like to provide a platform for the presentation of similar projects, as well as extensions or integrations from the surrounding research areas. The overall goal of the workshop is bringing together different institutions with similar challenges and establishing a community around our HELIPORT project. We welcome submissions on related projects, metadata in our scientific field in general or workflows, in the form of talks or posters. We also welcome first or future HELIPORT use-cases from within our community!

The HELIPORT project aims to make the components or steps of the entire life cycle of a research project at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) and the Helmholtz-Institute Jena (HIJ) discoverable, accessible, interoperable and reusable according to the FAIR principles. In particular, this data management solution deals with the entire lifecycle of research experiments, starting with the generation of the first digital objects, the workflows carried out and the actual publication of research results. For this purpose, a concept was developed that identifies the different systems involved and their connections. By integrating computational workflows (CWL and others), HELIPORT can automate calculations that work with metadata from different internal systems (application management, Labbook, GitLab, and further). This presentation will cover the first year of the project, the current status and the path taken so far in the life cycle of the project.

At the High-Field High-Repetition-Rate Terahertz facility @ELBE (TELBE), ultrafast terahertz-induced dynamics can be probed in various states of matter with highest precision. The TELBE sources offer both, stable and tunable narrowband THz radiation with pulse energies of several microjoules at high repetition rates and a synchronized coherent diffraction radiator,that provides broadband single-cycle pulses. The measurements at TELBE are data intensive, which can be as high as 20GB per experiment, that can lasts up to several minutes. As a result, the current data aquisition and data analysis stages are decoupled, where in the first step the primary data is processed and stored at HZDR and in a later step, restricted data access is made available to the user for post-processing. In this poster contribution, we present an integrated workflow for post-processing of the experimental data at TELBE with in-built exchange of metadata between the experiment control software LabView and the workflow execution engine UNICORE. We also present the guidance system HELIPORT[3] which manages the metadata of the associated project proposal and job information from UNICORE, and integrates with the electronic lab notebook (MediaWiki), providing a user-friendly interface for monitoring the actively running experiments at TELBE.

HELIPORT is a data management solution that aims at making the components and steps of the entire research experiment’s life cycle discoverable, accessible, interoperable and reusable according to the FAIR principles.
Among other information, HELIPORT integrates documentation, scientific workflows, and the final publication of the research results - all via already established solutions for proposal management, electronic lab notebooks, software development and devops tools, and other additional data sources. The integration is accomplished by presenting the researchers with a high-level overview to keep all aspects of the experiment in mind, and automatically exchanging relevant metadata between the experiment’s life cycle steps.
Computational agents can interact with HELIPORT via a REST API that allows access to all components, and landing pages that allow for export of digital objects in various standardized formats and schemas. An overall digital object graph combining the metadata harvested from all sources provides scientists with a visual representation of interactions and relations between their digital objects, as well as their existence in the first place. Through the integrated computational workflow systems, HELIPORT can automate calculations using the collected metadata.
By visualizing all aspects of large-scale research experiments, HELIPORT enables deeper insights into a comprehensible data provenance with the chance of raising awareness for data management.

The talk introduces the general idea behind the HELIPORT project, which aims to make the entire life cycle of a scientific experiment or project discoverable, accessible, interoperable and reusable by providing an overview from a top-level perspective. Specifically, our data management solution addresses the areas from data generation to publication of primary research data, computing workflows performed and the actual research results.

The guidance system HELIPORT aims to make the components or steps of the entire life cycle of a research project at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) discoverable, accessible, interoperable and reusable according to the FAIR principles. In particular, this data management solution deals with the entire lifecycle of research experiments, starting with the generation of the first digital objects, the workflows carried out and the actual publication of research results. For this purpose, a concept was developed that identifies the different systems involved and their connections. By integrating computational workflows (CWL and others), HELIPORT can automate calculations that work with metadata from different internal systems (application management, Labbook, GitLab, and further).
In this lecture, the overall system will be presented using a practical example.

The presentation gives an overview on the HELIPORT project at the Helmholtz Institute Jena and related IT activities.

The presentation gives an overview on the HELIPORT project. Furthermore the presentation gives insight into our motivation developing a guidance system which is now known under the name HELIPORT.

Wissenschaftliche Experimente nutzen eine große Bandbreite an verschiedenen Software-Werkzeugen in den verschiedenen Phasen des Projektes von der Proposal-Einreichung über die Datennahme bis zur finalen Publikation. Eine große Herausforderung für Wissenschaftseinrichtungen ist es, WissenschaftlerInnen für die Dokumentation der genutzten Werkzeuge in allen Phasen des Forschungsprojektes zusätzliche Metadaten gemäß der FAIR-Prinzipien zur Verfügung zu stellen. Das Ziel der HELmholtz ScIentific Project WORkflow PlaTform (HELIPORT) ist es daher den kompletten Lebenszyklus eines wissenschaftlichen Projekts zu registrieren und die zugehörigen Programme und Systeme miteinander zu verknüpfen. Die maschinenlesbare Dokumentation aller im jeweiligen Forschungsprojekt durchgeführten Arbeitsschritte gemeinsam mit den dazugehörigen Metadaten macht jeden Arbeitsschritt transparent, verständlich und zitierbar und trägt somit zur Einhaltung guter wissenschaftlicher Praxis bei.
In der Präsentation von Dr. Oliver Knodel vom HZDR wird das von der HMC geförderte Projekt HELIPORT (2021-2023) vorgestellt und in die Datenmanagementstruktur des HZDR eingeordnet.