Speaker
Description
Electronic Lab Notebooks are most valuable when embedded in the Research Data Management (RDM) lifecycle. This talk shows how the open-source ELN eLabFTW becomes a front door to FAIR-aligned RDM: capturing structured, provenance-rich records at creation and handing them off to institutional services.
I’ll highlight core features (templates with required fields, permissions, audit trails, versioning/locking, attachments, exports/API) and a pragmatic workflow: capture → govern → store → describe/share → automate. Implementation lessons (template design, light controlled vocabularies, onboarding, SSO) and small automations (via the API) that trigger curation or repository deposit will be shared, along with simple indicators (template adoption, key-field completeness, time-to-deposit).
Takeaway: eLabFTW turns routine documentation into reusable research outputs with minimal friction.
