If you’ve known RSpace for a while, the first thing that will likely come to mind is an electronic lab notebook. That’s fair — it’s where we started in 2013, and the ELN remains a core part of RSpace. But continuously over the past few years, RSpace has grown into something bigger by integrating management for physical research objects, and research data workflows orchestrated across tools, services, and research infrastructure, all enhanced by FAIR enabling resources like PIDs and metadata standards.

At the same time our vision for RSpace has evolved. In early March we’ve quietly relaunched researchspace.com with a new look, a new logo, and a new structure that reflects how we actually think about the three core facets of RSpace.

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Research Orchestrator

RSpace connects institutional storage and compute, supports 20+ integrations (Galaxy, Dataverse, iRODS, DMPTool and more), and provides native support for persistent identifiers, ontologies, and metadata standards — ORCID, RAiD, IGSN ID, ROR, PIDINST (soon), RO-Crate — directly in research workflows. As such, RSpace helps to streamline research workflows across tools and services, fostering adoption and efficient use of research infrastructure and FAIR practices.

→ Learn more about the Research Orchestrator

Electronic Lab Notebook

Planning research, recording progress and experimental/study context, and collecting data are daily activities, all research has in common. This puts tools like ELNs on top of funnel towards creating FAIR data and greatly reduce the effort of FAIRifying data post-creation. RSpace helps with these activities as a collaborative, generalist research notebook with native chemistry workflows, integrated inventory, and workflows with tools researchers already use.

→ Learn more about the ELN

Sample Management

Managing physical objects, such as samples, is another starting point for researchers to adopt FAIR digital research practices right at the beginning of their research. RSpace features a mobile-first, visual inventory system for managing samples at scale — including offline field collection workflows and IGSN ID support for FAIR sample publication. And of course, it’s tightly integrated with the ELN features in RSpace.

→ Learn more about Sample Management

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The new logo — a three-coloured cube  — is a small visual cue to this shift. Each face represents one facet of our vision, tightly integrated with each other.

If your institution is thinking about where research notes, physical objects, and infrastructure connect we’d love to talk.

→ Explore the new website

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