1. Broaden and strengthen the knowledge and requirements for adoption of Electronic Laboratory Notebooks (ELNs) and data management solutions in academic research groups inside the ETH domain. This was a collaboration between ETH Scientific IT Services (SIS) and the IT Services of the School of Engineering (SE) of EPFL, drawing from extensive experience inside SIS in deploying and providing their own software, openBIS, as an ELN and data management solution inside the ETH Domain (namely ETH Zurich, Empa and PSI) and beyond. The openBIS software was provided as cloud service to three research groups in EPFL SE. Trainings and individual groups onboarding were provided to the groups and regular meetings with users were scheduled. In addition, a new service provisioning model for SIS was successfully tested, where the openBIS software was deployed by SIS on EPFL infrastructure. SIS regularly provides services on ETH Zurich infrastructure and on SWITCHEngines.

2. Enhance ELNs interoperability by implementing a standard for ELN data export. Currently efforts in this direction exist with the ELN file format of the ELN consortium, which is based on RO-crate. The RO-crate format is a way to package data and the respective metadata. Both RO-crate and the ELN file format have some limitations, due to the fact that they do not include metadata schema for the different ELN solutions. Each ELN available on the market has its own metadata schema and it is currently not possible to map schemas from different solutions. We worked towards extending RO-crate to include ELNs metadata schemas with the goal of extending this to the ELN file format and we specifically developed a Python API for RO-crates imports/exports.