The document discusses interest from researchers at other universities in Edinburgh's integration of electronic lab notebooks (ELNs) with research data management systems (RDMS). It summarizes the key benefits of RSpace, Edinburgh's ELN and RDMS, including its ability to capture, organize, and share data and files. It connects to Edinburgh's data storage systems and is integrated with their data repository and archive. This provides researchers an integrated research data management workflow.

1. THE WORLD IS WATCHING EDINBURGH
Greg Nattrass, South Australian
Research Institute
I have checked out the
interesting work you are
doing with the University
of Edinburgh in integrating
ELNs with Research Data
Management Systems. I’m
on a committee looking at
ways to implement RDMS
across our organisation
and am interested
whether RSpace could be
rolled out across other
research organisations.
I am member of a task force for
data management at the Health
Faculty of the University of
Copenhagen. We need to come
up with a policy for data
management and an ELN . I
think we could learn a lot from
your experience with RSpace
at Edinburgh.
Susanne den Boer
University of
Copenhagen
Edinburgh RDM
Here’s why

2. ▶ Researchers in key fields – biology,
chemistry and biomedicine – are
moving from paper to RSpace
It allows them better data
capture, retention, organisation
and the ability to share within
and between labs
It connects to their files in
Edinburgh’s file storage system:
DataStore
and
Convenient data
capture and sharing
Connects to files in
Edinburgh DataStore

3. RSpace handles and organises diverse data
types
• RSpace documents
• All kinds of files

4. RSpace is integrated with the
DataShare repository
And will be integrated with the
DataVault archive
RSpace supports export of documents, folders
and associated metadata in XML zip files
and

5. DataShare
Repository
DataStore
File store
DataVault
Archive
Data
Files
Data, files and
metadata
Data, files
and metadata
The result:
An integrated RDM workflow for researchers and the institution

6. Research Space is partnering with
Edinburgh researchers, RDM
professionals and IT managers to make
this happen