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Setting up your eLabFTW ELN

Setting up your eLabFTW ELN

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With eLabFTW, you can model your lab-related work digitally by setting up templates for different resources and experiments. The templates can be used to model new experiments more quickly or to manage resources.

You can set up your ELAB-ELN in three steps:

1. Set up resources

2. Set up experiments

3. Test resources and experimente


Set up ressources

Resources represent objects, devices etc. that can be used in an experiment, e.g. a microscope.

Resources can be color coded and linked to images or instruction manuals. Team admins can divide resources into categories and create templates for each category. This allows other users to use the templates when modeling an experiment and know directly what inputs are required.

Resources can be configured as “bookable” so that all users can use resources for their experiments or see when a resource is not available.

Set up experiments

Experiments can be recorded in standard templates. Associated metadata is recorded within the template for the respective experiment, e.g. measurements. Templates can be copied and extended.

A high degree of standardization of the recorded metadata makes your research more interoperable and transferable.

Be sure to coordinate the metadata for experiment templates within your research group in order to achieve the greatest added value for all participants.

Test resources and experiments

Once you have familiarized yourself with the basics, you should start testing. Test in smaller user groups first. Set up regular review meetings to make updates and changes. Once you are ready to roll out the system to everyone, run induction and training sessions within the research group concerned.

last changed on 07/02/2025

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