Community Meeting 28 April 2026 Summary
🌟 Summary of the Community Meeting on April 28, 2026
This eLabFTW Community Meeting featured two presentations from the community:
- Dionyssis Antypas (Heidelberg University Biochemistry Center) - “elAPI Plugins: Facilitating Batch Uploads and Downloads from eLabFTW”
- Leonid Bovkun (Postdoc, Chair for Applied Physics, University of Würzburg) - “Bridging people, data, and infrared devices: a User’s perspective for collaborative research and development using elabFTW”
In the first presentation, Dionyssis described how the elAPI Plugins desktop application enables batch upload and download of research data to eLabFTW through Excel and CSV files. The application makes it possible to import data into existing templates in eLabFTW, thus improving options for data standardization. In the second presentation, Leonid shared how physicists use eLabFTW for project management in quantum device development, highlighting the challenges of tracking complex experimental data across different instruments and team members.
Nicolas Carpi (the lead developer) then demonstrated upcoming interface improvements to eLabFTW, including better accessibility features, live search functionality, and infinite scrolling. The conversation ended with a discussion about feature prioritization and plans to improve the project management capabilities in eLabFTW.
In the next meeting, we will focus on the .eln file format – we will discuss a new way to share templates (exciting!) and talk about the ELN consortium. See you there!