How can research data from different sources be effectively managed, linked, and reused? In this session we will give an insight into LinkAhead - a flexible open source software toolkit specifically designed to meet the needs of research data management.
LinkAhead enables the automated integration of different data from different contexts and thus serves as a link between the different steps of the research process - from data acquisition to data analysis and publication. It works hand in hand with other RDM software such as electronic lab notebooks or repositories. We will demonstrate how researchers can efficiently browse their data in LinkAhead's web interface and trace links between data.
LinkAhead supports researchers in various research areas, grows flexibly with their needs and can therefore be used by individual researchers as well as small research groups or entire institutes.
The workshop is organized by the state initiative Research Data Management Lower Saxony, FDM-NDS. FDM-NDS is a collaborative project under the umbrella of Hochschule.digital Niedersachsen and is funded as part of zukunft.niedersachsen, a funding program by the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture (MWK) and Volkswagen Foundation.
