[](https://heliport.hzdr.de/) [](https://codebase.helmholtz.cloud/heliport/heliport/-/tags) [](https://lifecycle.r-lib.org/articles/stages.html#experimental) [](LICENSE) [](https://doi.org/10.14278/rodare.946) # HELIPORT You can find detailed information about the HELIPORT project on [our website](https://heliport.hzdr.de/)! For a visual overview take a look at [the project poster](https://heliport.hzdr.de/docs/resources/#heliport_poster_2022). The [fully-featured prototype installation](https://heliport.hzdr.de) at HZDR is accessible to all Helmholtz members via Helmholtz ID. Interested parties from other institutions may create an account on [Helmholtz ID](https://login.helmholtz.de) and request access to the HZDR instance [via email](mailto:heliport@hzdr.de). Documentation for users, administrators and developers can be found on the [HELIPORT website](https://heliport.hzdr.de/documentation/). ## Features HELIPORT accompanies the whole lifecycle of a research project, providing integration of various systems and resources that researchers interact with on a daily basis, and collecting information for a fully comprehensive metadata description of the project. Some highlights include: - Digital objects with globally unique persistent identifiers - Retrieval of proposal metadata - Computational workflow management with CWL - Automation of recurring tasks - Access to data sources - Publication of results Moreover, HELIPORT provides a REST API to allow programmatic access to all important resources. ## Development [](https://www.python.org/) [](https://codebase.helmholtz.cloud/heliport/heliport/-/pipelines) [](https://codebase.helmholtz.cloud/heliport/heliport/-/pipelines) HELIPORT is a web application built in Python using the Django framework. Functionality is encapsulated in modules to allow for easy adaption and extension. We make heavy use of CI/CD for static code analysis and testing. This way, we achieve a consistent code style and reusability throughout the whole codebase. The documentation is built and deployed automatically to always reflect the current state of the code. ## System Architecture The figure below shows the interaction of some of HELIPORT's components with other services within the research data management landscape at HZDR.  ## Attribution The user interface design of the [workflow visualization](heliport/cwl_execution/static/cwl_execution/visualization) was taken from the [Rabix cwl-svg library](https://github.com/rabix/cwl-svg) and re-implemented for HELIPORT. The icons were taken from the same library and are licensed under the Apache license v2.0.