Auxiliary Services for the Condition Database of the BM@N Experiment at NICA

The Unified Condition Database (called UniConDa) of the BM@N experiment, which is the first experiment of the NICA project, is used as a central storage for vital experiment metadata and various parameters, including session and run information, detector and subsystem parameters, and descriptions of generated simulation files with particle collision events. For an effective work with the database in the existing software environment of the experiment, a set of various tools and services are required. In the paper, a high-level description of the ecosystem of such services, that have been developed and are being actively maintained by the BM@N collaboration, is given, and implementation of a new service for the corresponding information system is presented in detail. The aim of the developed software tool is transferring the condition information from the existing files of ASCII text, CSV and XML formats to the Unified Condition Database. The tool has been successfully used for filling the BM@N Condition Database with information containing parameter data of the first BM@N runs. The software service, called Smart Data Parser, has been developed as a universal processing tool based on JSON schema and supports multiple database engines, so it can be reused later for similar use cases in the experiment.