Introducing the PHOTONIC project: mainstreaming smart data access for photon sources users
Authors/Creators
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Brookhaven National Laboratory
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Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY
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HTW Berlin - University of Applied Sciences
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University of Siegen
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Kiel University
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European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser
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Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie
Description
The Erum-Data initiative of the BMFTR promotes the transition from “big data” to “smart data.” The PHOTONIC project addresses this goal for photon science by enabling selective, efficient access to experimental data, initially targeting external users of DESY beamlines, particularly university groups.
PHOTONIC aims to provide live and offline access to whole or sliced data, in user-defined formats. It supports both on-site experiments and remote analysis by the principal investigator and their team and, ultimately, public access in the frame of the DESY data policy. Key use cases include X-ray reflectivity, requiring low-latency feedback, and X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy, characterised by high data volumes with smaller regions of interest.
The project started on November 1, 2025, and the team has now grown to near completion. The project infrastructure is in place and we have begun evaluating Tiled, as the existing software upon which we are building. Tiled is an open-source scientific data access platform already adopted at several synchrotrons, including at Diamond Light Source and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin for pilot beamlines.
The official kick-off meeting was held at DESY on March 6, 2026, with participation from European XFEL, University of Kiel, University of Siegen, Helmholtz Center Berlin, and Brookhaven National Laboratory.
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Funding
- Federal Ministry of Education and Research
- PHOTONIC 13K2500180