🌟 RDM Club Meeting 4

Thank you to everyone who attended this RDM club meeting, which was held on Sept 30, 2025. In this meeting, we discussed the continued development of the ELN Community template sharing website.

Specifically, we considered the following:

• Whether users should be able to delete templates. Attendees pointed out that it is important to make sure that the metadata is retained so that people know why a specific template got deleted.

🦑 Automatisation and Processing Pipelines with eLabFTW & Nyarlathotep

In this session, Phillip Seeber presented Nyarlathotep, a program to automate analysis of ElabFTW experiments.

That is, it enables automated processing of (raw) data uploaded to eLabFTW. It does so by scanning an eLabFTW instance for experiments with a “magic” tag, Nyarlathotep-Do. Based on the other tags of the experiment, Nyarlathotep will choose a registered analysis program, pass experiments and attached files to the analyser and store the output in the corresponding eLabFTW experiment.

PID4NFDI :: Metadata & PID Workflows

Joint Workshop for ELN and DMP Tools :: September 22/23 2025

This is a recording of the lightning talk given on the second day of the meeting, about Persistent Identifiers in eLabFTW ELN.

Introduction

eLabFTW 5.3 has been released! This new version brings many new features, enhancements and a few bugfixes. This blog post highlights some of these changes, but the complete list of changes is available on the release page.

A note about “stable” releases

eLabFTW is a living project — “stable” would imply it is no longer evolving. Version 5.3.0 is production-ready, but minor bugs will surface once it is in wide use, and patches will follow.

🌟 RDM Club Meeting 3

Thank you to everyone who attended the 3rd RDM club meeting, which took place on July 1. In this meeting, we launched the new template sharing platform, which is now up for testing over the summer by members of the RDM club. The platform is in a very early stage, but it enables users to log in with an ORCID ID, and to upload and download template files. We are planning to add more features in the autumn of 2025 according to user feedback. Nicolas Carpi explained the basics of the platform, and then the group discussed its design.

🌟 RDM Club Meetings 1 and 2 - recap

We are pleased to announce that we have a new regular community event specifically for Research Data Managers and other data professionals who support users of eLabFTW!

The eLabFTW RDM club was created to enable RDMs from all over the world to share strategies for supporting users of eLabFTW at their institutions. This club will start off with monthly informal meetings, and may eventually include working groups and real life meet-ups (!). For now, the meetings are not recorded (to encourage discussion), but there will be a blog post with a recap of each meeting.

🌟 OpenCloning introduction

In this session, the author of OpenCloning, a cloning tool for molecular biologists, presents the integration within eLabFTW and basic functions of the software.

Then Nico presents the latest changes in the new version and discusses upcoming features.

There is a Q&A session afterwards.

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Introduction

eLabFTW 5.2 has been released! This new version brings many new features, enhancements and a few bugfixes. This blog post highlights some of these changes, but the complete list of changes is available on the release page.

A note about “stable” releases

eLabFTW is a living project — “stable” would imply it’s no longer evolving. Version 5.2.0 is production-ready, but minor bugs will surface once it’s in wide use, and patches will follow.

🌟 Sixth eLabFTW Community Meeting

In this session, we learned about strategies for teaching with eLabFTW and implementing the software at research institutions.

1. Nikki Parks (RWTH Aachen University) - “Establishing eLabFTW as a Central University Service”
2. Isabell Schmitz (Goethe University Frankfurt) - “Transforming Lab Education: Teaching with eLabFTW”

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🌟 Fifth eLabFTW Community Meeting

In this session, we learned about the integration of eLabFTW with other tools.

1. Dr. Alexander Schlemmer (IndiScale): “Data Integration from RO-Crate and the ELN-File format using the LinkAhead Crawler”
2. Open session where users can ask questions, discuss upcoming features, and talk about their experiences with eLabFTW.

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