TY  - EJOUR
AU  - Villamar, Jose
AU  - Kelbling, Matthias
AU  - More, Heather
AU  - Denker, Michael
AU  - Tetzlaff, Tom
AU  - Senk, Johanna
AU  - Thober, Stephan
TI  - Metadata practices for simulation workflows
IS  - 2408.17309
PB  - arXiv
M1  - FZJ-2024-05343
M1  - 2408.17309
PY  - 2024
AB  - Computer simulations are an essential pillar of knowledge generation in science.Understanding, reproducing, and exploring the results of simulations relies on tracking and organizing metadata describing numerical experiments.However, the models used to understand real-world systems, and the computational machinery required to simulate them, are typically complex, and produce large amounts of heterogeneous metadata.Here, we present general practices for acquiring and handling metadata that are agnostic to software and hardware, and highly flexible for the user.These consist of two steps: 1) recording and storing raw metadata, and 2) selecting and structuring metadata.As a proof of concept, we develop the Archivist, a Python tool to help with the second step, and use it to apply our practices to distinct high-performance computing use cases from neuroscience and hydrology.Our practices and the Archivist can readily be applied to existing workflows without the need for substantial restructuring.They support sustainable numerical workflows, facilitating reproducibility and data reuse in generic simulation-based research.
KW  - Information Retrieval (cs.IR) (Other)
KW  - FOS: Computer and information sciences (Other)
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)25
DO  - DOI:10.48550/arXiv.2408.17309
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1030590
ER  -