hep-metadex¶
The general-purpose reference for building experiment metadata management systems across high-energy physics — published as an OpenSpec Store: a standalone, registered OpenSpec repository whose common capability specifications any experiment can consume read-only, plus the workflow scaffolding that experiments install by template.
This site is the reading front door for evaluators and adopter maintainers. The repository remains the adopter entry point with its quick start; everything readable there is readable here.
Where to start¶
- Adopting an experiment — setup.md walks a fresh repository to a connected one; usage.md covers change-time work and write-back.
- Evaluating the project (HSF or otherwise) — governance.md records decision rights and the review bar; hsf-affiliation.md maps every required HSF affiliated-project guideline to the artifact in this repository that satisfies it.
- Maintaining this repository — maintainer.md holds template provenance, the divergence manifest, and update-from-upstream guidance.
- Contributing a change — see CONTRIBUTING.md in the repository; the intent prompt guidelines shape the intents that drive every change.
What flows where¶
Content reaches an experiment repository through two independent channels:
- Specs flow through the store, read-only. A Store reference declaration injects the store's spec index into the experiment's artifact workflows.
- Workflow scaffolding replicates by template install. The kit is copied from a hep-metadex checkout at bootstrap time; it never flows through the store.
dune-metadex is the first adopter, proving the mechanism end to end.