HELIPORT: HELmholtz ScIentific Project WORkflow PlaTform
Project Partners: HZDR, FZJ, HIJ (GSI)
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 visualising 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.
https://heliport.hzdr.de/
https://helmholtz-metadaten.de/storage/1118/06_Heliport_HMC.pdf
Publications:
Knodel, Voigt, Ufer, Pape, Lokamani, Müller, Gruber, Juckeland; Proceedings publication presentation International Workshop “HELIPORT: A Portable Platform for {FAIR Workflow | Metadata | Scientific Project Lifecycle} Management and Everything”, 4th International Workshop on Practical Reproducible Evaluation of Computer Systems (P-RECS '21), 21.06.2021; https://doi.org/10.1145/3456287.3465477.
Knodel, Voigt, Ufer, Pape, Lokamani, Müller, Gruber, Juckeland; Workshop presentation “HELIPORT (HELmholtz ScIentificProject WORkflow PlaTform)”, Laserlab workshop: Better Data for Better Science - Research Data Management, 28.-29.10.2021; https://www.laserlab-europe.eu/events-1/laserlab-events/2021/documents-2021/programme-better-data-for-better-science.
Knodel, Hein, Kessler; Workshop presentation “HELIPORT use case POLARIS: Integration of a High Intensity Laser in a complete data life cycle workflow”, Laserlab workshop: Better Data for Better Science - Research Data Management, 28.-29.10.2021; https://www.laserlab-europe.eu/events-1/laserlab-events/2021/documents-2021/programme-better-data-for-better-science.
Knodel; Workshop presentation “HELIPORT: A Potential Platform for Running Digital Twins FAIRly”, LEAPS Integrated Platform Workshop, 11.05.21; Digital Kitchen von SaxFDM, 16.12.2021; https://indico.psi.ch/event/11213/contributions.
Knodel, Voigt, Ufer, Pape, Lokamani, Müller, Gruber, Juckeland; Workshop presentation “Full Integrated Research Data Lifecycle – The Project HELIPORT”, Digital Kitchen von SaxFDM, 16.12.2021; https://tu-dresden.de/zih/die-einrichtung/termine/zih_kolloquium.
Knodel; Workshop presentation “HELIPORT - An Integrated Research Data Lifecycle”, ZIH colloquium at TU Dresden, 05.05.2022; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7115759.
Knodel, Pape, Voigt, Gruber, Kelling, Lokamani, Müller, Juckeland, Kessler, Hein, Chen, Kaluza, Schuller; Poster “HELIPORT - An Integrated Research Data Lifecycle”, 8th Annual "Matter and Technologies" Meeting, 05.-06.09.2022 3. Sächsische FDMTagung, 22.09.2022 German Conference for Research with Synchrotron Radiation, Neutrons and on Beams at Large Facilities 05-07.09.2022; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7115759.
Knodel et al.; Workshop proceedings “First HELIPORT Workshop: Book of Abstracts”, First HELIPORT Workshop, Dresden, 06.10.2022; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8064045.
Knodel, Voigt, Ufer, Pape, Lokamani, Müller, Gruber, Juckeland; Workshop presentation “Complex workflows in modern computational science using AiiDA and HELIPORT”, IT4Science-Days 2023, Berlin, 26.-28.09.2023; https://events.hifis.net/event/808/contributions/5822.
Knodel, Voigt, Ufer, Pape, Lokamani, Müller, Gruber, Juckeland; Workshop presentation “Adaptable Research and Data Management Platform for High DataRate Experiments”, IT4Science-Days 2023, Berlin, 26.-28.09.2023; https://events.hifis.net/event/808/contributions/5823.
Knodel ; Workshop presentation, “Data Policies and Infrastructure Services for FAIR Data: Cornerstones Along the Path and Lessons Learned”, HELPMI Workshop, Darmstadt, 13.-14.11.2023; https://indico.gsi.de/event/17826/contributions/76031/.
Knodel, Voigt, Ufer, Pape, Lokamani, Müller, Gruber, Juckeland; Workshop presentation “Overarching Data Management Ecosystem HELIPORT”, 1st Workshop on Open Science at GSI/FAIR 2023, Darmstadt, 19.-20.10.2023; https://indico.gsi.de/event/17498/timetable.
Lokamani; Workshop presentation “Complex workflows in modern computational science using AiiDA and HELIPORT T”, Participation 9th Annual MT Meeting, Karlsruhe, 09.10.2023; https://indico.desy.de/event/38765/contributions/154086.
Knodel, Voigt, Ufer, Pape, Lokamani, Müller, Gruber, Juckeland; Conference presentation ”Overarching Data Management Ecosystem at HZDR”, 1st Conference on Research Data Infrastructure, Karlsruhe, 12.-14.09.2023; https://doi.org/10.52825/CoRDI.v1i.277.
A list of publications (e.g. talks, poster) is available on the project website: https://heliport.hzdr.de/docs/resources/