datalab is an open source data management platform , which can be customised and hosted by individual chemistry and materials science labs.
The main aim of datalab is to provide a platform for capturing the significant amounts of long-tail experimental data and metadata produced in a typical lab, and enable storage, filtering and future data re-use by humans and machines. The platform provides researchers with a way to record sample- and device-specific metadata, attach and sync raw data from instruments, and perform analysis and visualisation of many characterisation techniques in the browser (XRD, NMR, electrochemical cycling, TEM, TGA, Mass Spec, Raman). Importantly, datalab stores a network of interconnected research objects in the lab, such that individual pieces of data are stored with the context needed to make them scientifically useful.