FAIRmat Users Meeting: Hands-on Tutorial NOMAD CAMELS

Controlling experiments and recording FAIR data with NOMAD CAMELS

What is it all about?

NOMAD CAMELS (Configurable Application for Measurements, Experiments and Laboratory Systems) is an open-source measurement software that records FAIR and fully self-describing measurement data. It enables the definition of measurement protocols via a graphical user interface without requiring programming knowledge or deeper understanding of instrument communication. Coming from the field of experimental physics, CAMELS provides the flexibility of controlling a large variety of measurement instruments in frequently changing experimental setups. The user-defined measurement protocols are translated into stand-alone executable Python code, providing full transparency of the actual measurement sequences.

This hands-on tutorial demonstrates how to set up and control an experiment, and how to obtain FAIR experimental data using CAMELS (to follow bring your own laptop if possible).

Preparation

Please install NOMAD CAMELS on your own laptop (see our installation guide for instructions).

For Windows computers, you may simply download and run the NOMAD CAMELS installer. It would be helpful (but not mandatory) to install NOMAD CAMELS before the hands-on tutorial.

Materials and exercises for the hands-on tutorial

See you in Erlangen on at the FAIRmat Users Meeting (hands-on tutorial on Friday, June 14, 2024, 2pm in lecture hall F)!

Further information:

Want to know more about NOMAD CAMELS? We look forward to hearing from you!

Write to lap-nomad-camels@fau.de or start a discussion on GitHub.

Alexander Fuchs, M. Sc.

Johannes Lehmeyer, M. Sc.

Prof. Dr. Heiko B. Weber

Dr. Michael Krieger, Akad. ORat