RSpace Blog

January 20, 2025

IGSN ID Guides from DataCite & RSpace

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In case you missed it, DataCite and RSpace collaborated on a couple materials to demystify IGSN IDs and help support their adoption! We hope these are helpful 📖

Samples 101 – Getting started with managing your samples using IGSN IDs and RSpace

https://zenodo.org/records/13669732

‍This guide aims to provide comprehensive, step-by-step advice to enable institutions to set up and manage IGSN IDs for their material samples. We have compiled summaries and checklists for core concepts, commonly asked questions, and points of confusion, based on our experiences with various user groups.

IGSN ID Implementation Exemplars: RSpace

https://doi.org/10.5438/5xq3-b955

‍A walkthrough of the IGSN ID integration in RSpace Inventory, providing an example of how IGSN IDs can be seamlessly integrated into a sample management system to enable FAIR workflows.

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June 23, 2026

Chemistry in RSpace: What a Year of Open-Source Development Looks Like

Product Updates

A year after transitioning RSpace's chemistry tools to an open-source stack, we look at what has been built since: an open chemistry codebase on GitHub, PubChem compound import directly from documents, and stoichiometry tables connected to inventory management. We also preview what comes next, including chemistry-aware metadata in exports to generalist and domain repositories.

June 9, 2026

What Core Facilities Can Get Out of Implementing RSpace

Research Data Management

How core facilities in research institutions can leverage RSpace to manage documentation, user agreements, and multi-project workflows across diverse research groups.

June 9, 2026

How RSpace Structured Templates Can Transform Your Lab Documentation

Research Data Management

A look at how structured templates and forms in RSpace can streamline lab documentation, reduce errors, and help research groups build a shared knowledge base.

April 21, 2026

Introducing The Guide to the RSpace Project

Open source

We're launching The Guide to the RSpace Project - a new community resource covering how to contribute to, understand, and engage with RSpace as an open source project, developed with support from the Birdaro training program.