Speakers
Description
The demo showcases the integration between RSpace, a digital research platform built around an electronic lab notebook and integrated with a sample management system that enables capture, association and structuring of experimental and sample data, and iRODS, a research data management platform that tracks files at large scale, up to billions of files. The existing Stage 1 integration ensures that when external files linked to RSpace documents change location, the link integrity is maintained, solving the ‘broken links’ problem. Stage 2 of the integration, currently under development, enables export of datasets and associated metadata from RSpace to iRODS. This makes possible association of data from RSpace with the potentially vast range of data tracked by iRODS– e.g., all the data in a university’s data storage facilities or all the data in a multi-university or national project such as a biodiversity initiative. The RSpace data in iRODS will be discoverable via the associated metadata, enabling meaningful association with related data from other research resources, and re-use and repurposing of the data via, e.g., AI engines. We will also submit a proposal for an associated Lightning Talk, covering use cases at Leiden University and TU Delft, and SURF’s provision of support for iRODS and RSpace to Dutch educational and research institutions.
