Create project mission

[nitrosx]

Create a mission statement for the project that explain what SciCat is about and its functionalities.
The objective should be short description that is useful when presenting the tool to facility and company managers.

[nitrosx]

Idea 1
SciCat is the metadata catalogue to help you manage the complete life cycle of your scientific data, including curation and publication. SciCat simplify data access for your users, manage permissions. It helps with data ownership and provenance. It is designed to easily integrate with existing IT infrastructure, and multiple identity management systems, data storage systems and other services.

[nitrosx]

Idea 2
SciCat is the metadata catalogue that offers you an easy way to manage the complete life cycle of your scientific data, including curation and publication. SciCat is the central hub where your users can easily find and their data. SciCat enforces access permissions while helping with data ownership and track their provenance. SciCat is designed to easily integrate with your existing IT infrastructure. It can interact with your identity management system, your data storage systems and other services present in your facility with minimal configuration and customization.

[nitrosx]

Idea 3
SciCat is the metadata catalogue designed to easily manage the complete FAIR life cycle of your scientific data. SciCat aims to be the central hub where all your users can easily enrich/curate, search and publish their data, while administrators effortlessly manage data ownership, data access and, also, maintain data provenance and FAIRness. SciCat easily integrates with your existing IT infrastructure leveraging various available functionalities or through community supported services.

[LAShemilt]

So mission statement should possibly include the following:

• FAIR definition
• open source
• make it easy to apply and use FAIR
• ready path to data publication
• Flexible and can integrate with almost any infrastructure

[LAShemilt]

Idea 4
SciCat is the opensource scientific metadata catalogue, allowing you to easily find, access and examine your scientific datasets. Our flexible platform can be easily integrated into most workplace infrastructures allowing you to have a central platform for ingesting metadata directly from instruments, easy path to publishing and sharing data amongst collaborators. We aim to provide a platform that moves your organisation to a FAIR data culture and improves the reproducibility of your science.

[nitrosx]

Idea 4-b (minor changes)
SciCat is the open source scientific metadata catalogue, allowing you to easily find, access and examine your scientific datasets. Its flexible platform can be easily integrated into most workplace infrastructures enabling you to have a central hub for ingesting metadata directly from instruments, easy path to publishing and sharing data amongst collaborators. SciCat aims to provide a platform that leads your organisation to a FAIR data culture and improves the reproducibility of your science.

[nitrosx]

Idea 5
SciCat improves the reproducibility of your science providing a central hub where metadata is stored, and data is easily findable, accessible and managed for the entire facility. It is the open source scientific metadata catalogue, design to be flexible and extensible and can be easily integrated into your workplace infrastructure . SciCat provides the right platform to leads your organisation to a FAIR data culture, where data sharing and collaboration is part of everybody mindset.

[LAShemilt]

Elevate your scientific data to accelerate your research and generate new insights. SciCat provides the right platform to lead your organisation to an open data culture, where data sharing and collaboration is part of everybody's mindset. SciCat provides a central hub for metadata, making data easily findable, accessible for the entire community . We are commited to being the open source scientific metadata catalogue that can be easily integrated into any workplace infrastructure .

[nitrosx]

Proposed project mission:

Advance your scientific data to accelerate your research and generate new insights. SciCat provides the right platform to lead your organisation to an open data culture, where data sharing and collaboration is part of everybody's mindset. SciCat provides a central hub for metadata, making data easily findable, accessible for the entire community . We are commited to being the open source scientific metadata catalogue that can be easily integrated into any workplace infrastructure.

[nitrosx]

Following comments from the community during our meeting on 2024/11/26, the mission proposed above has been dismissed.
Please the new one below.

[nitrosx]

Proposed project mission:

Advance your scientific data to accelerate your research and generate new insights. SciCat provides the right platform to lead your organization to an innovative data culture, where data sharing and collaboration is part of everybody's mindset. SciCat provides a central hub for metadata, making data easily findable, accessible for the entire community . We are committed to being the open source scientific metadata catalogue that can be easily integrated into any workplace infrastructure.

[nitrosx]

Comments and feedback are accepted until December 9th, 2024

[rkweehinzmann]

Thanks ! I really like some words ! But how about this one :

Advance your data to advance your science. Enrich your scientific data to enable easy meta data management with SciCat, an open source scientific meta data catalogue that comes with all the useful features you need. As example, SciCat has a ready to use path for data publication and its ability to be integrated to almost any infrastructure makes it flexible to very specific needs. We are committed to high class science through making your data centrally findable and accessible – in a FAIR format and with an open and collaborative community behind it.

[sbliven]

I like starting with a sentence derived from the tagline. I think all the first sentences proposed fit this well, and could be easily adopted based on the decision in #55.

I like how @nitrosx's proposed version includes three terms from FAIR without using the acronym. Likewise "sharing and collaboration" is inclusive of many use cases. The second sentence sounds very corporate; since most of our users are academic maybe we can reduce the corporate jargon.

My attempt:

Advance your data to advance your science. SciCat is an open-source scientific metadata catalog designed to simplify metadata management, enabling data sharing, discovery, and collaboration. By providing a central hub for metadata, SciCat makes data easily findable and accessible for the entire community. With flexible integration into diverse infrastructures and a clear path to data publication, SciCat empowers organizations to foster an open and innovative data culture, driving high-quality science forward.

[LAShemilt]

Hi Regina

Thanks for your input. I really like the line about supported by a communnity and I think we should somehow add that to our mission statement. We discussed heavily about including the acronym FAIR, but were advised by the comms team at the Franklin it would be too specific.

We will ask for advise from none data experts and Comms about our mission statement before putting it live.

Thanks for your suggestions

[LAShemilt]

I like Spencer's suggestion too. It has a lot of what Regina has suggested too. I like the tone of it, as it is a bit more exciting than the original mission statement proposed by Max and I, whilst keeping many of the same ideas. I will put these to Comms after we talk about this in our next meeting.

[LAShemilt]

Taking all the suggestions including, Igor's on open-source, Regina's on community and Spencer's how about:

Advance your data to advance your science. SciCat is a community driven scientific metadata catalog designed to simplify metadata management, enabling data sharing, discovery, and collaboration. By providing a central hub for metadata, SciCat makes data easily findable and accessible for the entire community. With flexible integration into diverse infrastructures and a clear path to data publication, SciCat empowers organizations to foster an open and innovative data culture, driving high-quality science forward.