Current work

Internally, LEAPS WG3 coordinates some (mostly facility-funded) activity through various topical Special Interest Groups. One goal of such SIGs is to continue the dialogue and coordination started during (time-limited) projects.

LEAPS members facilities receive funding through participation in various projects. Some projects are funded by the European Commission (part of the European Union), while others are nationally funded.

Finally, the EC-funded OSCARS project itself funds various (smaller scale) third-party projects through a "cascading grant" mechanism. A summary table is provided below, which shows those projects that impact PaNOSC, the science cluster in which LEAPS is represented.

Special interest groups

Following the RDA model, WG3 work is organised in Special Interest Groups or SIGs. A SIG is a group of people from different PaN facilities, working together on a particular topic of common interest. The SIGs have defined targets and report progress back to the WG3 meetings. More details on what SIGs are can be found in "What is a SIG?".

The current list of SIGs is the following:

AI/ML active

Coordinator: Markus Janousch (PSI)

Core Trust Seal active

Coordinator: Andy Götz (ESRF)

EOSC Node active

Coordinator: Andy Götz (ESRF)

Direct DOI Data Access (D3A) active

Coordinator: Paul Millar (DESY)

Data reduction awaiting kick-off

Coordinator: Zdenek Matej (MAX IV)

OSCARS projects

The OSCARS project is funding various small projects. The following table provides a summary of those projects that impact the PaNOSC cluster, within which LEAPS facilities are represented.
Title PI Organisations (host in bold) Duration Science Clusters
Findable Big Data from Various Material Characterisation Techniques Sandor Brockhauser HUHumboldt-Universität zu Berlin, HZBHelmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, ESRFEuropean Synchrotron Radiation Facility 2024-10-01/P24M PaNOSC, Other
VISA: User experience enhancement Ludovic Leroux ILLInstitut Laue-Langevin 2024-10-01/P20M PaNOSC
AI-SCOPE: AI-Driven Enhancement of Surface Scattering Data for Open Science Platforms Across Europe Stefan Kowarik University of Graz, SASSlovak Academy of Sciences, UTÜBTübingen University 2024-12-01/P24M PaNOSC
HiMAGNETOS: High Magnetic Field Open Science Christiane WARTH-MARTIN, Bruyant Nicolas LNCMILaboratoire National des Champs Magnétiques Intenses 2025-01-01/P24M ENVRI, PaNOSC, OTHER, ESCAPE, LSRI
OSPARK - Open Science Promotion and Advocacy for Research Knowledge Bootcamp Heidi Seibold DRADigital Research Academy 2025-01-01/P24M ESCAPE, PaNOSC, LSRI, ENVRI, SSHOC, Other
CDIF-4-XAS: Describing X-Ray Spectroscopy Data for Cross-Domain Use Simon Hodson CODATACommittee on Data of the International Science Council, STFCScience and Technology Facilities Council, Cardiff University, HZBHelmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, HMCHelmholtz Metadata Collaboration 2024-10-01/P24M PaNOSC
mTeSS-X: Scaling training portal federation for RIs through Multi-tenanting and Exchange Carole Goble HZDRHelmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, ULUniversity of Limerick, UTUniversity of Tartu 2024-10-01/P24M PaNOSC, LSRI
SHARE: Synchrotron x-ray analysis of Heritage Accessible to and Reusable by Everyone Marine Cotte ESRFEuropean Synchrotron Research Facility, PPSMLaboratoire de Photophysique et Photochimie Supramoleculaires et Macromoleculaires, SCITECIstituto di Scienze e Tecnologie Chimiche "Giulio Natta", Rijksmuseum 2025-01-01/P24M PaNOSC, SSHOC
HEFTIE - Handling Enormous Files from Tomographic Imaging Experiments David Stansby UCLUniversity College London, scalable minds 2024-10-01/P12M PaNOSC, LSRI
MC-ReDD - Metadata Capture and validation for Re-use of raw Diffraction Data Loes Kroon-Batenburg European XFELEuropean X-Ray Free-Electron Laser, IUCrInternational Union of Crystallography 2024-11-01/P18M PaNOSC
CODEMETASOFT Daniel Garijo, Thomas Villaume UPMUniversidad Politécnica de Madrid, LAPPLaboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules 2024-11-01/P24M ESCAPE, ENVRI, Other, LSRI, PaNOSC, SSHOC
Photon and Neutron federated knowledge finder, PaN-Finder Massimiliano Novelli ESSEuropean Spallation Source 2024-10-01/P24M PaNOSC
MatScatNet - A Cloud Database for Sharing X-ray & Neutron Scattering Data for Materials Research Maxwell Terban Momentum Transfer, ESRFEuropean Synchrotron Radiation Facility 2024-10-01/P24M PaNOSC

There is one more project where the host organisation has yet to sign the contract. This table excludes all such projects.

Current projects

The projects in which members of our group are or have been involved are listed in the following table:
Project Teaser Partners Outcomes
ExPaNDS
(2019 - 2023)
The ambition of EOSC Photon and Neutron Data Services (ExPaNDS) is to enrich the EOSC with data management services and to coordinate activities to enable national Photon and Neutron (PaN) RIs to make the majority of their data ‘open’ following FAIR principles and to...
  • ALBA
  • DESY
  • Diamond
  • Elettra
  • HZB
  • HZDR
  • ISIS
  • MAX IV
  • PSI
  • SOLEIL
PaNOSC
(2018 - 2022)
PaNOSC will build on top of the existing local meta-data catalogues and data repositories to provide federated services for making data easily Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Re-usable (FAIR). Extracting the scientific value of the experimental data produced in our...
  • DESY
  • ESRF
  • ESS
  • EuXFEL
  • ILL
NEPHEWS
(2024 - )
Trans-national access for Neutron and Photon fundamental science
  • ESRF
  • SOLARIS
OSCARS
(2024 - 2027)
The OSCARS project brings together ESFRI and other world-class research infrastructures organised in five Science Clusters, ENVRI-FAIR (environmental science), EOSC-Life (life science), ESCAPE (astronomy and particle physics), PaNOSC (neutron and light source science) and...
  • DESY
  • ESRF
EOSC-Beyond
(2024 - 2027)
EOSC Beyond overall objective is to advance Open Science and innovation in research in the context of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) by providing new EOSC Core capabilities allowing scientific applications to find, compose and access multiple Open Science resources...
  • DESY
EOSC-Future
(2021 - 2024)
EOSC Future responds to INFRAEOSC-03-2020 call in order to integrate, consolidate, and connect e-infrastructures, research communities, and initiatives in Open Science to further develop the EOSC Portal, EOSC-Core and EOSC-Exchange of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)...
  • DESY
  • ESRF
  • ILL
  • PSI
LEAPS-INNOV
(2021 - 2025)
LEAPS-INNOV is a pilot project aimed at kick-starting implementation of the LEAPS Technology roadmap and fostering partnerships between European light sources and industry.

Workpackage 7, DATA, is focused on data reduction and compression, and aims to both develop new methods for data reduction and improve sharing of methods between our institutes and with industry. Information about the workpackage, including events and seminars, is available from the WP7 gitlab group.

  • ALBA
  • DESY
  • Diamond
  • Elettra
  • ESRF
  • EuXFEL
  • HZB
  • HZDR
  • MAX IV
  • PSI
  • SOLARIS
  • SOLEIL
DAPHNE4NFDI
(2021 - 2026)
DAPHNE stands for DAta from PHoton and Neutron Experiments and is a project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) for a National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI). Its goals are to:
  • Improve metadata capture through consistent workflows supported by user-driven online logbooks that are linked to the data collection
  • Establish a community repository of processed data, new reference databases and analysis code for published results
  • Develop, curate and deploy user-developed analysis software on facility computing infrastructure so that ordinary users can benefit from and repeat the analysis performed by leading power user groups through common data analysis portals.
  • DESY
  • EuXFEL
  • HZB
  • HZDR
ROCK-IT
(2023 - )
ROCK-IT (remote, operando controlled, knowledge-driven, IT-based), aims to build a demonstrator beamline with a focus on automation of complex operando studies in catalysis research. It provides solutions to improve the efficiency of catalysis research, tailor-made, yet composed of generic building blocks portable enough to be applicable to a wide range of measurements.
  • DESY
  • HZB
  • HZDR
EVERSE
(2024 - 2027)
The EVERSE project aims to create a framework for research software and code excellence, collaboratively designed and championed by the research communities, in pursuit of building a European network of Research Software Quality and setting the foundations of a future Virtual Institute for Research Software Excellence. It incorporates all EOSC science clusters. HDZR serves as the proxy for PaNOSC.
  • HZDR