Speaker
Description
Chemotion ELN is a widely used Electronic Lab Notebook that promotes FAIR research. It does so by providing a comprehensive platform that helps a researcher at all stages - from planning to publishing, while automatically managing their research data for them. Funded by NFDI4Chem, the ELN's use has been growing steadily - an aspect of the project that has brought its own challenges.
In this behind the scenes talk, I will discuss our learning curve as we grew from being an in-house solution to a national one and now head towards providing the ELN as a Service. Some aspects that I will cover include moving away from monolithic architecture, solving on-site deployment challenges, experience with hiring external developers, the cost of providing 'free' support, striving for funding and our ongoing attempts at improving overall SysAdmin and end-user experience. The aim of the talk is to highlight problems in RS development (with focus on Germany), even when enough funding and well-intentioned support is available.
