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Welcome

First of all: Welcome!

How to work with this material

This material serves as a follow-up to a training course on the subject of electronic lab notebooks. However, it can also be used as self-learning material.

The powerpoint slides can be found in the attachments of this material.

Content of this Learning material

This course will start with a short introduction into the basic principles of research data management (01 Introduction to Research Data Management).

Then we will dive into the topic of Electronic Lab Notebooks. We start with an introduction (2.1 Introduction to Electronic Lab Notebooks), where you will learn what are the advantages of ELNs and how to choose an ELN that fits your needs (2.2 Selection of Electronic Lab Notebooks). Afterwards we will have a look at two Electronic Lab Notebooks that were developed at KIT: Chemotion (2.3 Example: Chemotion) and Kadi4Mat (2.4 Example: Kadi4Mat).

At the end we will conclude the results (03 Conclusion).

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Summary

This section provides a brief summary of the previous content.

Exercise

This highlights exercises that were included in the training course. If you are using this GitBook as self-learning material, you can think about these questions for yourself and work through the exercises.

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This highlights KIT-specific information.

Short introduction

As a warm up and get to know each other: Let's start with a short introduction.

Exercise 0.1: Short introduction

  • Let us know: Who are you and what is your field of expertise?
  • What research data do you work with?
  • Have you ever used an Lab Notebook?
  • And have you ever used an Electronic Lab Notebook? If yes, which one?
  • What do you know about Electronic Lab Notebooks?