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AKjDPG: Arbeitsgruppe junge DPG

AKjDPG 2: Hacky Hour (joint session AKjDPG/AGI)

AKjDPG 2.3: Poster

Thursday, March 23, 2023, 15:30–15:40, ZEU/0148

ELN integration into the open-source data management solution CaosDB — Daniel Hornung, Florian Spreckelsen, Henrik tom Wörden, Timm Fitschen, and •Thomas Weiß — IndiScale GmbH, Göttingen, Germany

Scientific research still often lacks professional data management, mostly because the dynamically evolving research environments lack suitable software tools. In contrast, standardized industrial processes can be integrated easily with existing data management software. Research work in the lab is increasingly documented with electronic lab notebooks (ELNs), which allow to conveniently enter device and experimental settings in a semi-structured way. This data is usually critical in the analysis of acquired raw data from instruments, e.g. for searching specific data sets or filtering by parameters. We successfully integrated the data management software CaosDB with the eLabFTW ELN, thus combining flexible lab input methods with an agile open source approach to data management.

We chose CaosDB over other solutions, because it allows to flexibly adjust the data model when necessary. This agility is required by the dynamic nature of scientific research activities and cannot be provided by rigid, SQL based approaches.