Metadata aided run selection at ATLAS

• Published in: Journal of physics. Conference series Vol. 331; no. 4; pp. 042030 - 6
• Main Authors: Buckingham, R M, Gallas, E J, Tseng, J C-L, Viegas, F, Vinek, E
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bristol IOP Publishing 23.12.2011
• Subjects: Collection; Coma; Criteria; Extensible Markup Language; Metadata; Physics; Quality assessment; Relational data bases; Tables (data); User interfaces; XML

Management of the large volume of data collected by any large scale scientific experiment requires the collection of coherent metadata quantities, which can be used by reconstruction or analysis programs and/or user interfaces, to pinpoint collections of data needed for specific purposes. In the ATL...