Integrated Instrument and Inventory Logbook for Experimental Science Labs

Our aim is to develop practices and tools to trace and share the state of shared inventory items in a multi-user laboratory, linking this information to the personal Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) of each user. With this practice, we seek to fill a big blank spot in the tracking of mutable laboratory information management system (LIMS) objects. A tool akin to a digital inventory logbook will be developed as an openBIS extension to support a wide range of experimental laboratories with variable types of measurement equipment and inventory items. This inventory logbook will complement the native openBIS ELN-LIMS, with focus on measurement equipment and inventory
management. The implementation will prioritize generality and user-friendliness to minimize adaptation barriers and promote the dissemination of this ORD practice.