Improving the interoperability of Electronic Lab Notebooks and data repositories by enhancing API integration

Improving the interoperability of Electronic Lab Notebooks and data repositories by enhancing API integration

Institutions

Empa, ETH Zurich, PSI

Partners

Carlo Minotti, Omkar Zade, Frédéric Thomas Potier, Caterina Barillari, Juan Fuentes, Bernd Rinn, Simone Baffelli

Abstract

Sharing of research data is often perceived as a burden by researchers, as it usually involves manual upload of data from data management systems like Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELN) to repositories. This project aims to contribute to a better integration between ELN systems and data repositories in the ETH Domain, by implementing open API-based interfaces between the SciCat data repository and three important ELNs in the ETH Domain (SciLog, openBIS, Heidi). By implementing seamless interfaces between these widely used solutions in the ETH Domain, the project will simplify existing ORD practices for researchers, thereby lowering the barrier for publication of high-quality FAIR datasets.