Research Data Management (RDM)

KNMFi Laboratory for Automation and Data Management

Implementing FAIR Research data management is given high priority in KNMFi, therefore we offer RDM support for KNMFi technologies and support the respective technology experts and users of our technologies. Software and services are being developed and offered within KNMFi to realize digitalization strategies and establish research data management. By tailor-fitting the tools to the requirements of the KNMFi labs, the research and documentation processes of scientists are accelerated. As a result, the technologies in KNMFi reach a high standard to meet criteria of sustainability, transparency, and reproducibility.

Electronic Lab Notebooks

We are well on the way implementing Electronic Laboratory Notebooks (ELNs) to all of our technologies. The scientists can request the specialist adaptation of the ELNs provided by the development teams in Lab 3 (Chemotion/LabIMotion and Kadi4Mat) according to the requirements of their technologies. We also aim to extend our expertise on implementing ELNs to our users. Successful RDM proposals will benefit from the direct involvement of our scientists in adapting and implementing either or both or our ELNs in the user’s specific research environment.

Read more about RDM in the Helmholtz Program Materials Systems Engineering (MSE): https://www.mse.kit.edu/RDM.php

Chemotion/LabIMotion

The Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) Chemotion offers sophisticated software for scientific work that includes different features for experimental sciences. The software establishes new data flow concepts and fosters the documentation of analytical processes. Chemotion ELN was built for chemists, including sample processing steps, molecule drawing editors and special data analysis tools. The software allows further reading of proprietary data files, to convert them into open, standardized data and to extract metadata that can be mapped to other ELN schemes. The extension LabIMotion (as a part of Chemotion) includes flexible modules that can be designed and adapted by scientists to modify the ELN according to diverse requirements and applications. The software was extended to support samples in materials sciences and can be used in a flexible way to store materials related data and analyses. The modules can be connected to each other and therefore, a clear assignment of materials and samples to processes and workflows can be gained. The connection of devices was achieved for exemplary analytical laboratory devices such as NMR, HPLC, GC, and IR instruments and will be extended further to meet the requirements of forthcoming users of the software and infrastructure.

Karlsruhe Data Infrastructure for Materials Science (Kadi4Mat)

Kadi4Mat provides a software to combine modelling, simulation and analysis in materials research.

For KNMFi users, services are offered which allow the mapping of new research aspects. This includes the integration of additional data types and documentation needs into a digital workflow. The offered solutions aim to support users in particular in their efforts to generate FAIR data that meet the requirements of research data management standards and fosters the re-use of the data. Please see further details referring to the KNMFi offer: Hier link zur Seite Kadi4Mat - KNMFi Seite

Data Availability in Repositories

Chemotion and LabIMotion allow the transfer of data into a repository for research data (chemotion repository) including the generation of DOIs as persistent identifier. The data is transferred without the loss of information and can be re-used by others due to the availability of machine readable full datasets. Other repositories such as RADAR are also supported, exported data can be used to submit to repositories such as Zenodo. If you are interested in a more detailed explanation and description or a demo of the software, please contact us.