Research Data Management

Development of a Documentation Strategy for TEM / FIB Experiments using an ELN
  • Tracking and organization of complex research scenarios
  • Sample tracking across all preparation steps, investigations, and linking to devices used
  • Collecting metadata in one place
  • Producing FAIR data
  • Developed templates as blueprints and basis for a modular system
  • Towards schemata for consistent description of metadata à comparable information, easy search
  • Breakdown of complex tasks into “simple” units à construction kit for all experimental descriptions
  • Defined access rights to data and metadata
  • Extendable to other techniques / technologies (synthesis / materials characterization / sample analysis)
  • We use  , a generic and open-source virtual research environment.

 

 

Exemplary overview of possible general process steps

Details and further work are published at:

  1. S. Schlabach, J. Wild, O. Petkau, M. Selzer and D. V. Szabó: „Using ELN Functionality of Kadi4Mat (KadiWeb) in a Materials Science Case Study of a User Facility”, Data Science Journal 2024, Vol. 19, Issue 50, Pages 1-16. https://doi.org./10.5334/dsj-2024-050

  2. M. Jalali, M. Mail, R. Aversa and C. Kübel: „MSLE: An Ontology for Materials Science Laboratory Equipment – Large-Sale Devices for Materials Characterization“, Materials Today Communications 2023, Vol. 35, Pages 105532. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtcomm.2023.105532

  3. R. Joseph, A. Chauhan, C. Eschke, A. Z. Ihsan, M. Jalali, U. Jäntsch, N. Jung, C. N. Shyam Kumar, C. Kübel, C. Lucas, M. Mail, A. Mazilkin, C. Neidiger, M. Panighel, S. Sandfeld, R. Stotzka, R. Thelen, R. Aversa: „Metadata Schema to Support FAIR Data in Scanning Electron Microscopy”, Supplementary 23rd International Conference on Data Analytics and Management in Data Intensive Domains, DAMDID/RCDL 2021 Moscow (virtual) 2021, Pages 265-277. https://doi.org/10.5445/IR/1000141604