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This transition naturally extends Research Spaceâs approach to product development, which always involved close collaboration with research organisations, communities, and researchers.</p><p class="our-story justified">By embracing open-source principles, Research Space aims to further enhance the interoperability and capabilities of RSpace. We also continue to add exciting new capabilities that push the envelope in alignment with the latest developments in the global RDM sphere.</p><div class="time-line"></div><h2 class="heading-card">2019 â 2024: From ELN to Research Platform</h2><p class="our-story justified">The past five years have seen a number of exciting developments:</p><p class="our-story justified"><strong>â</strong> The release of a modern, highly visual, and mobile-first inventory and sample management system that is deeply integrated with our ELN, RSpace Inventory.</p><p class="our-story justified"><strong>â</strong> Development of an RSpace-supported research ecosystem, powered by integrations with more than 20 research and data management tools</p><p class="our-story justified"><strong>â</strong> Deep engagement with the RDM community: active participation and contribution as contributors, advisors and collaborators to the Research Data Alliance and RDM projects and products including Dataverse, Dryad, DataCite, DMP Tool, iRODS, and the FDO Forum.</p><p class="our-story justified"><strong>â</strong> Building on the earlier decision to enable easy data export and tool interoperabilty, Continued enhancements relating to FAIRification of data, including incorporation of PIDs into RSpace, support for association of controlled vocabularies with RSpace data, and functionality for maintaining the association between the PID or the controlled vocabulary with exported data.</p><p class="our-story justified"><strong>â</strong> Deployment of RSpace in the regional and national Research Commons and Research Clouds, which are important vehicles for innovation in delivery of RDM services</p><div class="time-line"></div><h2 class="heading-card">2012 â 2018: The Beginnings of RSpace</h2><p class="our-story justified">The academic community emphasised two core priorities: "we hate vendor lock in", and "if your product does not interoperate with other tools our researchers use, they wonât use your product". 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It was a bittersweet moment, however, because eCAT was in no way an Enterprise offering, lacking multi-group functionality and performance scalability.</p><p class="our-story justified">We made the hard decision to create a successor product, inspired by eCAT but designed for flexible institutional deployment. We spent an intensive 18 months engaging with researchers, data librarians, domain specialists, and IT folks at The University of Wisconsin Madison to gather requirements for the new product, which we decided to name RSpace.</p><div class="time-line"></div><h2 class="heading-card">2003 â 2011: eCAT</h2><p class="our-story justified">Engagement with potential users convinced us that what was needed was not a tool for individual researchers, but something that groups â labs â could use. eCAT was developed. It was an early example of an electronic lab notebook designed for academic labs. The development of a sample management module that was deeply integrated
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