the 5th Open Reflectometry Standards Organisation ORSO annual meeting in collaboration with DAPHNE4NFDI

Took place online at 12:00 to 16:00 CET (20:00-00:00 Aus, 06:00-10:00 US East coast) on the 21st of June 2023.

Unlike previous years this meeting only included a short half-day workshop and an administrative AGM. This year the focus was on

  • machine learning and
  • FAIR data.

In Germany we have a large consortium DAPHNE4NFDI which aims to make research data FAIR in the field of X-ray and neutron science. The special thing about DAPHNE4NFDI is that it is jointly organized by users and facilities. We know of course that FAIR data and advanced analysis schemes via AI/ML are a topic of interest basically everywhere.

These sessions at the ORSO annual meeting had the aim of discussing the status-quo of meta-data, archiving and re-using of data in our Reflectometry community and at the different facilities.

Schedule:

12:00-13:00: Machine learning (Chair: Bridget Murphy)

The workshop started with a scientific contribution outlining machine learning applications and software solutions for X-ray and neutron reflectivity in a DAPHNE4NFDI/ORSO joint session

12:00 -12:05 Welcome (Tom Arnold (ESS))

12:05- 12:35 Frank Schreiber (University of Tübingen): Machine learning for reflectometry: Concepts, applications, and challenges Presentation, Video

12:35-12:45 Vladimir Starostin (University of Tübingen): Machine learning for reflectometry: Algorithms and performance Presentation, Video

12:45-13:00 Discussion

13:00-13:50: AGM (Chair: Tom Arnold)

13:00 – 13.30: Short Reports from each of the Working groups.

  • Tom Arnold, Artur Glavic, Tim Snow: Education & Outreach Working Group Presentation
  • Andrew McCluskey: Reproducibility Working Group Presentation, Video
  • Max Skoda: Data Formats Working Group, Video
  • Brian Maranville: Data Analysis Working Group Presentation, Video

13:30 - 13:50: Discussion of the draft constitution. Please review this and if you have some feedback before or after the meeting please use the github issue or email Tom.

13:50 - 14:00 short break

14:00-16:00: FAIR data for reflectometry (Chair: Bridget Murphy)

This is another DAPHNE4NFDI/ORSO joint session: The aim of this session was to discuss and adopt an international community standard set of defined metadata for reflectometry experiments and the creation of a community catalogue of reflectometry reference data.

14:00 - 14:05 Bridget Murphy (CAU-Kiel): Brief introduction and Outline of session, Video

14:05 - 14:20 Heike Görzig (HZB): Metadata to make FAIR data, Presentation, Video

14:20 - 14:35 Jochen Stahn (PSI): Metadata in the ORSO data format .ort Presentation, Video

14:35 - 14:45 Max Novelli (ESS): Metadata at ESS and the Scitacean project, Presentation, Video

14:45 - 15:20 5 minute (maximum) impulse talks

  • Nicolas Hayen (CAU- KielP08/PETRA III) Metadata for X-ray reflectivity at P08/PETRA III Presentation, Video
  • Jonas Graetz (FAU) Meta data catalogue for Neutron reflectivity at REFSANS/ MLZ, Presentation, Video
  • Andrew Nelson (ANSTO) Metadata at ANSTO, Video
  • Brian Maranville (NIST) Metadat at NIST Presentation, Video
  • Linus Pithan Presentation

15:20 - 16:00 Discussion