RSpace Blog

March 31, 2020

RSpace now available to run on Docker

Product Updates

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From RSpace 1.69, we’re pleased to announce that it’s possible to run RSpace using Docker. This greatly simplifies installation and enables a running, fully featured RSpace in a few minutes.

Running RSpace on Docker will be useful in many cases, for example if  you are:

  • A developer working with the RSpace API (e.g. an app developer, or script developers). Being able to use a sandbox instance of RSpace to test your applications/scripts against will speed up development and avoid polluting your RSpace account with documents generated in testing.
  • A potential customer wanting to evaluate RSpace on-premises and want to get started easily and quickly. Installing regular RSpace isn’t hugely difficult but does take some time and patience to configure.
  • A potential customer working exclusively in a  Windows or MacOSX server  environment that we don’t support native deployment for.

We are not yet recommending using RSpace-on-Docker for a full, heavily-used production system; we are still evaluating  maintenance, backup and recovery SOPs.

For more details please look at the RSpace-on-Docker documentation or get in touch with us!

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June 16, 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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