Thanks to everyone contributing to our 8th RSpace open-source office hour. 🎙️
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RSpace is a collaborative research data management platform that interoperates with many tools, services and digital infrastructure researchers and their research organizations already use. It is designed to enable frictionless workflows for the creation and management of FAIR (Findable Accessible Interoperable Reusable) data across the entire research cycle when researchers plan their research, record experimental data, keep track of physical samples, report on their work and share it.
Our guests Titusz Pan and Martin Etzrodt (@ISCC Foundation) walked us through the ISCC ISO-standard for fingerprinting and identifying content. Rather than first registering an ID with an authority, you compute a fingerprint straight from the content itself, so you can find an asset and its provenance again even after metadata is stripped. It is already applied in bioimaging as part of the the BioCode project with Leiden University.
On our side, we shared progress on an RSpace initiative to give research instruments persistent identifiers. The interesting part was discussing where the two could meet, for example signing data right at the microscope, and how together they build trust in research data in the age of AI. We also shared the latest from the RSpace project, including a new community templates resource.
Lots of generalist ELNs "support chemistry". In practice that means merely displaying structures, while the actual work happens elsewhere. We took a different path: an open chemistry engine (Ketcher, OpenBabel, Indigo) that gives us and our community the agency to build real chemistry workflows, in the notebook and beyond.
https://www.researchspace.com/blog/chemistry-in-rspace
Chemistry in RSpace: What a Year of Open-Source Development Looks Like
A year after transitioning RSpace's chemistry tools to an open-source stack, we look at what has been built since: an open chemistry codebase on GitHub, PubChem compound import directly from documents, and stoichiometry tables connected to inventory management. We also preview what comes next, including chemistry-aware metadata in exports to generalist and domain repositories.
👋 Tomorrow is our next RSpace open source office hour with a guest contribution from the ISCC (International Standard Content Code) Foundation! Join us on June 17th at
3pm (CEST):
https://github.com/rspace-os/community/blob/main/the%20rspace%20project/Guide/calendar.md
3pm (CEST):
https://github.com/rspace-os/community/blob/main/the%20rspace%20project/Guide/calendar.md
👋 One week until the next RSpace open source office hour! Join us on June 17th at 3pm (CEST): https://buff.ly/ZCE3V8j
Core facilities run experiments for dozens of groups with different projects, timelines, and documentation needs.
Our latest post breaks explores how RSpace solutions map to different Core facility types.
👉 https://www.researchspace.com/blog/core-facility-rspace
Templates and Forms mentioned in this post can be found in the new RSpace template repository
👉 https://github.com/rspace-os/rspace-templates
RSpace 2.23 is out ☀
- S3 File System connector now supports uploading Gallery files to S3, and transfer between filestores 🔀
- Support for transferring forms and templates on user deletion, for easier offboarding of users 📦
- New video embed dialog that supports YouTube, JoVE and TIB AV-Portal 📺
- Modernised our frontend build, including removing the old Gallery code! 🧹
Full changelog:
https://documentation.researchspace.com/l/en/article/mx11qvqg0i-changelog#what_s_new_in_2_23_also_1_123_june_2026
In our latest blog post, a biochemistry PhD shares how RSpace templates and forms improved their research documentation through structured entries, faster documentation, searchable records across 3 years of PhD work.
Their templates are now available in a new community template repository along with other examples for documents, inventory items and vocabularies for use in real research workflows.
https://www.researchspace.com/blog/rspace-templates-and-forms
🗓️ Save the date!
The next RSpace open source office hour takes place next month on June 17th at 3pm (CEST). If you'd like to showcase or discuss anything particular, let us know! Looking forward to seeing you there: https://github.com/rspace-os/community/blob/main/the%20rspace%20project/Guide/calendar.md
The next RSpace open source office hour takes place next month on June 17th at 3pm (CEST). If you'd like to showcase or discuss anything particular, let us know! Looking forward to seeing you there: https://github.com/rspace-os/community/blob/main/the%20rspace%20project/Guide/calendar.md