Electronic Lab Documentation (E-Logbook) at HZDR

E-Labbook Community

• More communication/knowledge sharing via Mattermost
• Resume regular meetings with community members
• Documentation for the community:
  • Expand the example experiment ELN with as many example functionalities as possible
  • FAQ: Documentation for common questions
  • Onbording: Documentation pages, video tutorial, regular workshops
  • Instance specific documentation
• Bringing the "Mwclient tools" for forms development developed for our community up to good standards in terms of software development best practices, e.g.
  • Tests
  • Packaging (setuptools, poetry, ...) instead of installation scripts
  • Help texts in the software instead of Markdown documents in the repo
  • LICENSE is missing
• Poster for events 
  
  

General Todos / Maintainance

• Task management using gitlab issues, interface between community and IT department
• Creation of lab books for users (at least 2 weeks per user/group)
• Continuous development of Mwclient_tools by adding functionalities for the ELN forms of the community users
• Keep Mediawiki source code up to date, regular updates
• Continuous extension of the example lab book to show the functional range
• Extension of the sample scripts

Roadmap

• Export of specific metadata to SciCat offers possibility for
  • Selection of which datasets to publish
  • Restructuring of metadata or introduction of a metadata standard
• Optimize for sample database
• Test of Open Semantic Lab, which enables, among other things:
  • define forms as JSON schema
  • obtain metadata directly as JSON
  • set graph relationships
• Device database:
  • Integration of HardwareDB (important metadata is stored and read out in HardwareDB)
  • Creation of devices from already existing lists
  • Create automatic CMS pages for "public" devices
• Extend with large devices
  • CMS - landing page
  • DOI registration
  • XML/JSON metadata export for DataCite
  • Evaluate versioning of large devices
• Sample scripts for specific use cases:
  • Creating/updating mediawiki page (automation) with python or Labview
  • reading metadata for data processing for e.g. python
• Move/migration from Athene server to Wiki server
• Have personal data populated through LDAP
• Make QR scanner software more configurable to make it more usable for other community members, including documentation.
• Report function (create pdf files as summary of multiple measurements). Possible variations:
  • Through a template in Mediawiki (e.g. for short/single experiments).
  • Through a script or Heliport (e.g. for a whole project)
• Linking with Heliport
  • Transfer (both directions) of selected metadata, e.g. for workflows
  • Readout of whole projects with selection for report or rodare
• Test multiple editability on one page