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SciCat Data Catalogue Backend

Stars: 27
Forks: 37
Open beginner issues: 1
Indexed issues: 142
Avg merge: 17h 32m
Merged PRs (30d): 38

Dominant language: TypeScript
License: BSD-3-Clause
Last GitHub push: Sep 17, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
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142 open issues indexed

Initial discussion performance Open

SciCatProject/backend#2961 · 1 reaction · 5 assignees · Opened Sep 14, 2026
Missing MongoDB Indices Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

SciCatProject/backend#2923 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 2, 2026
refactor checkPermissionsForDatasetExtended Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

SciCatProject/backend#2901 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 20, 2026
PublishedData permissions overly restrictive Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

SciCatProject/backend#2900 · Opened Aug 19, 2026
Jobs ordering not respected Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

SciCatProject/backend#2836 · Opened Jul 15, 2026
Documentation Checklist Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

SciCatProject/backend#2818 · Opened Jul 2, 2026
Attachment upload with nonexistent relationship is allowed Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

SciCatProject/backend#2797 · Opened Jun 22, 2026
Cannot relate attachement through datasetId field in POST request of attachments v4 Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

SciCatProject/backend#2703 · Opened Apr 27, 2026
DataFileList format in Origdatablock files request Open

Investigation

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

SciCatProject/backend#2702 · Opened Apr 27, 2026
Add PATCH for runtime config Open

enhancement

SciCatProject/backend#2634 · 1 reaction · 2 assignees · Opened Mar 25, 2026
Dataset's runNumber inconsistencies Open

SciCatProject/backend#2592 · 4 comments · 2 assignees · Opened Mar 9, 2026
missing alias in OutputOrigDatablockDto Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 50/100

SciCatProject/backend#2536 · Opened Feb 16, 2026
OrigDatablocks not returned in dataset public v4 Open

bug Discussion needed

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

SciCatProject/backend#2512 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 29, 2026
Condition filter limited to metadata keys returned by metadataKeys endpoint Open

bug

SciCatProject/backend#2455 · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 7, 2026
error when removing a job type from jobConfig.yaml Open

bug Release Jobs

SciCatProject/backend#2447 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 5, 2026
no include variable like origdatablock returned in py sdk datasets v4 Open

bug Important

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

SciCatProject/backend#2386 · Opened Nov 27, 2025
Create PublishedData with public Datasets Open

Discussion needed

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

SciCatProject/backend#2378 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 26, 2025
Mongo compability with mongo <5 Open

Low priority

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

SciCatProject/backend#2294 · Opened Oct 20, 2025
HistoryClass not type safe in typescript/python SDKs Open

v3-compatibility

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

SciCatProject/backend#2293 · Opened Oct 17, 2025
Default to administrative metadata from the token instead of making them required Open

Discussion needed

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

SciCatProject/backend#2289 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 17, 2025
Add tests for job controller Open

Low priority

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

SciCatProject/backend#2280 · Opened Oct 13, 2025
Creating attachments ignore the attachment id Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

SciCatProject/backend#2254 · Opened Oct 6, 2025
Updating number of files/size of dataset when creating datablocks leads to double counting Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 52/100

SciCatProject/backend#2250 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 3, 2025
Avoid silently dropping ownerGroup and accessGroup in origDatablocks Open

enhancement Improvement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

SciCatProject/backend#2199 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 10, 2025
Refactor of checkDatasetFiles Open

SciCatProject/backend#2180 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 5, 2025
Uninformative error message when passing invalid json to datasets?filter= Open

bug Low priority

SciCatProject/backend#2172 · 2 assignees · Opened Sep 3, 2025
Mismatch between old BE and new BE required properties Open

bug Discussion needed New SDK Release

SciCatProject/backend#2133 · 3 comments · 4 assignees · Opened Aug 19, 2025
SciCat authentication refactor plan - phase 1 Open

Discussion needed refactoring

SciCatProject/backend#2122 · 1 reaction · 2 assignees · Opened Aug 14, 2025
Add templating to RabbitMQ action Open

feature

SciCatProject/backend#2079 · 2 assignees · Opened Jul 23, 2025
Replace /Datasets/resetArchiveStatus endpoint Open

SciCatProject/backend#2078 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 23, 2025
Collections for Scientific Metadata Schemas Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

SciCatProject/backend#2016 · Opened Jun 26, 2025
Upload from other services Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

SciCatProject/backend#2015 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 26, 2025
Python SDK release fails on Scicat Backend release due to invalid project.requires-python spec Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 65/100

SciCatProject/backend#1998 · Opened Jun 19, 2025
/api/v3/user/login broken Open

bug

SciCatProject/backend#1987 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 16, 2025
Rework PublishedData / DOI Workflow Open

DCS question

SciCatProject/backend#1986 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 13, 2025
Record accuracy in quantities Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

SciCatProject/backend#1971 · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 6, 2025
Fuzzy searching Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

SciCatProject/backend#1970 · Opened Jun 6, 2025
Support semantic relationship between PublishedData and Dataset Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

SciCatProject/backend#1968 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 5, 2025
Implement count endpoints Open

feature

SciCatProject/backend#1965 · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 3, 2025
OIDC RP Initiated Logout Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

SciCatProject/backend#1924 · Opened May 20, 2025
allow multiple auth values in jobConfig.yaml Open

enhancement Low priority

SciCatProject/backend#1912 · 1 assignee · Opened May 14, 2025
Error responses currently lack of support for RFC 9457 Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

SciCatProject/backend#1896 · Opened May 12, 2025
Update PublishedData schema to follow DataCite's metadata schema more closely Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

SciCatProject/backend#1895 · 3 comments · Opened May 11, 2025
Include funding information in PublishedData Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

SciCatProject/backend#1894 · Opened May 11, 2025
impossible to check if dataset exists without parsing message string of the response Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

SciCatProject/backend#1893 · 1 comment · Opened May 11, 2025
Support for filters on nested `scientificMetadata` with `/api/v3/datasets/fullquery`? Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

SciCatProject/backend#1888 · Opened May 7, 2025
Upgrade or replace deprecated packages Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

SciCatProject/backend#1832 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 8, 2025
Improve api test instructions for testing locally Open

documentation

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

SciCatProject/backend#1816 · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 4, 2025
Testing access of specific users to the instances by ID Open

testing

SciCatProject/backend#1778 · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 20, 2025
Should JobClass extend OwnableClass? Open

Discussion needed enhancement Release Jobs

SciCatProject/backend#1775 · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 20, 2025

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