FOXDEN web tutorial

In this tutorial we will walk through FOXDEN infrastructure. Current system consists of loosely coupled services which helps you organize your (meta-) data and provide traceability of your analysis workflows from acquiring the data to final physics analysis, including DOI publication.

FOXDEN provides web UI and Command Line Interface (CLI).

FOXDEN web interface

For our tutorial we will use a demo version of FOXDEN infrastructure. We will also rely on set of pre-populated records available at FOXDEN demo repository

To proceed please navigate to this foxden-demo URL and follow these steps:

Authentication page

First time you access FOXDEN you’ll be prompted for your CLASSE credential via FOXDEN authentication page:

Main (dataset table) page

After that, you will be navigated to main FOXDEN page which will show available datasets:

Services page

FOXDEN provides many services which are available from services page

Metadata service

One of the many FOXDEN services is Metadata services. It provides a web form to inject your metadata record:

Once we’ll inject the metadata record you’ll be given either success or failure pages

On success page you can see your record details

On failure page you’ll be given some details of failed injection

Search page

On FOXDEN search page you will be prompted to provide your query

And, there is a minimal help to get you started

A simple FOXDEN query is {} which means no conditions and it return all metadata record

For more complicated query please refer to help section of search page

Results page

This is an example of results page showing few metadata records