NOMAD ELN
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DescriptionNOMAD lets you manage and share your materials science data in a way that makes it truly useful to you, your group, and the community. Free and open source. NOMAD processes uploaded files to extract structured data and rich metadata. Extend and customize NOMAD's schema to create specialized ELN editors to document your work and data.
ProviderFAIRmat
Information on ProviderFAIRmat is a consortium of many German universities and reasearch institutes. FAIRmat is building a FAIR data infrastructure for condensed-matter physics and the chemical physics of solids.
Activity Statusactive
Information on ActiveNOMAD 1.2.0 was released August 2023
Last checked onSeptember 2023
Provider's data safety and data security strategies
Reference usersNOMAD is developed and used by FAIRmat (https://www.fairmat-nfdi.eu) to create a distributed research data infrastructure for materials science.
Reviews
Exit strategy
Community
Known usersRHTW Aachen, Universität Hamburg, Helmholz Zentrum Berlin, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, University of Illinois, Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, and many more
General
LicenseOpen Source
PricingFree
Versions
Location of providerGermany
Usability
Customizable user interfaceCustomizable user interface, Users can create their own data schemas, visualzations, and notebooks. There is a plugin mechanism to create schemas and parsers to support additional data types.
LanguagesEnglish
SupportOnline documentation, There are frequent online tutorial events and a active user forum.
Usage statisticsCan be turned off
Offline functionalities
Core functions (Daily work)
Data inputBrowser forms, Rich text editor, Plain text editor, With external links, With internal links, Users can define their own forms to acquire consistent datasets. Many files of many types can be processed, references, and analysed.
Data import (formats)Scientific formats, Structured formats, Table formats, All kinds of files can be uploaded and managed. Specific structured and scientific formats are processed to extract structured data in a common form.
Data import (method)Drag & Drop / File Chooser, There is also an API and data can be uploaded via command line tools.
Data exportComplete content in document format, Complete content in machine readable format, Formats suitable for long term archiving, Formats suitable for publication
TemplatesDefine own templates, Import of own templates
Search functionsAdvanced search, Conditional search, Search by chemical structure, Search are lots of domain specific search filters for data entered by users or data processed from uploaded files.
CollaborationRights management, Work is organised in projects and projects can be shared with auther users. Users can have edit or just viewing rights to projects. Published projects are available to everyone.
Compliance with legal requirements
Preservation of evidenceRFC 3161, Timestamping
Compliance
Extended functions (Daily work)
Laboratory management functions
Integrations and extensions
AutomationData analysis, Get data from instrument, Integrated jupyterhub for analysis. Plugins allow to integrate other data sources, devices, etc. All functionality also available via API.
Device connection
Project management tools
Workflows
Integration in RDM and IT environment
Application programming interfacesREST API, Python library
Controlled vocabularyControlled Vocabulary, All data based on an extendable schema.
Data accessBrowser based
Data storage locationCloud, Local
Type of external cloud
Location of data storage or processing
Level of data protection (e.g. certification)
Transport encryption
Data storage encryption
Access control
Guaranteed SLAs
Interval of Data Backups
Number of Data Backups
Data Backups Encrypted
Template for data processing agreement (DPA), including the technical and organizational measures (TOM)
Authentication methods
User account security measures
Usage optionOn-premises, There is a singular public NOMAD service that everyone can use free of charge.
Server operating systemLinux, We recommand our docker image-based installation