Electronic laboratory note keeping

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Electronic laboratory note keeping

Göttingen Campus

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Challenges Introduction of an ELN in academic research environments

• No routine workflows (basic research)

• Dynamic working structures (heterogeneous methodology)

• High dynamics of interdisciplinary team composition

• Data management/access policies rarely defined

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ELNUnstructured documentation

• New methods

• Room for “creativity”

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ELNStructured documentation

• Centralized protocols

• Learning tool

• Quickly shared

• Metadata recording facilitated

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ELN: cross-linkingInstitutional filestore connectivity

• Cross-linking of primary research data

• Enables remote access to lab data

• Exports contain selected primary data and automatic lists of cross-linked data

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ELN: data publishingautomatic integration with campus repository

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Persistent identification via DOI and ORCID integration

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ELN: implementations Göttingen

• Heterogeneous applications

• Life sciences: RSpace, Labfolder, eLabFTW, Jupyter,

Redcap, self developments

• Chemistry: self developments

• Physics: Confluence, self developments

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ELNs: recent changes = new challenges

• ELNs get „normal“: Scientists more and more work (daily) with ELNs

• When scientist move they want to migrate their ELNs to new locations

• Large consortia: different ELNs need to be integrated

• “Source data”: some life science journals require (meta)datasets for each

figure in an article

• Long term archiving: What (exactly) to do with alumni ELN data sets?

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ELNs: The (near?) future

• Alternative input methods: Voice recognition/AI

• Labtwin.com

• Labvoice.ai

• Interfacing

• application programming interface (API)

• Standard development (e.g. REST)

• Offline documentation (synchronization)???

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ELNs: The (near?) future – voice commands

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1. Design of protocol in browser app 2. Application of protocol in mobile app

„Avocado … readprotocol“

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Summary

• Many benefits by introducing ELN documentation

• Start up phase takes some time

• Familiarize: Ideal versus real software

• Heterogeneous applications at a large Campus

• Increasing routine ELN usage evokes new challenges

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INF team

PD Dr. Sara Nußbeck

(TP INF-Leader IT)

Prof. Dr. Blanche Schwappach

(TP INF-Leader Research)orcid.org/0000-0003-1223-6494 orcid.org/0000-0003-0225-6432

Dr. Evelina De Laurentiis

(PostDoc)orcid.org/0000-0002-6469-1627

Dr. Harald Kusch

(PostDoc)orcid.org/0000-0002-9895-2469

Georg Aschenbrandt

Luca Freckmann

Christian Henke

Sophia Rheinländer

Markus Suhr

(M.Sc. Inf)orcid.org/0000-0002-6307-3253

Christoph Lehmann

(B.Sc. Inf)orcid.org/0000-0002-6801-7170

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