Open Semantic Lab (OSL) is a holistic web platform that can capture all data and ideas and link them precisely (semantically/ontology-based) - no matter if it' s inventory (LIMS), lab notes (ELN), procedures (SOPs) or research (KB). Each piece of information can also be machine-read, blockchain-signed and written to automatically transfer (Lab 4.0) and analyze (AI) measurement data. OSL actively supports between the unstructured (liquid) and highly structured / ontologized phase of knowledge within organizations the formation of a partially structured (amorphous) phase, which acts as a (crystallization) seed for the consistent growth of the highly structured phase. As an open system, Open Semantic Lab can be easily adapted with little to none programming knowledge without losing the uniform structure. In this way, we can contribute to everyone's knowledge individually and yet in a standardized way.
General Introduction
Short Introduction @ EMIRI Workshop "RE-INVENTING MATERIALS RESEARCH" as PDF or Video
Related common compontents: OpenSemanticWorld and content packages: OpenSemanticWorld-Packages, hosted on opensemantic.world
Most of the knowledge generated in industry and science is irrevocably lost because we lack suitable tools for sustainable and complete documentation.
In addition, generated data can only be structured and made accessible to AI with a great deal of additional effort.
- An object oriented linked data schema, see OO-LD
- MediaWiki, extented with Semantic MediaWiki and various other existing extensions
- The Mediawiki extension 'OpenSemanticLab'
- Ontologies, especially the General Process Ontology
- A Graph-Database, currently blazegraph
- A Time-Series-Database, currently TimeScaleDB
- JupyterHub as Workflow-Environment
- Node-RED as Dashboard-Solution
- A Python Toolset
- Connectors to platforms like IDS, PMD, NFDI/FAIRmat/NOMAD/OASIS etc. (tbd)
- Interfaces to other ELN / LIMS tools like openBIS (in work)
- Prototype-Level, applied in multiple research project, e. g. KIproBatt, OntoWiki, BIG-MAP Onterface, and BIG-MAP ELN Prototype
- Docker container & compose
- Demo-Instance (work in progress)
- Central Schema Repo/Registry
OpenSemanticLab was adapted/showcased in the following projects and initiatives. Funding information see individual pages / repositories.
| Name | Scope | Activity | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIproBatt | National (BMBF) | Adapted | https://kiprobatt.de |
| Mat-o-Lab | National (BMBF) | Adapted | https://mat-o-lab.open-semantic-lab.org/ |
| MaterialDigital | National (BMBF) | Showcased | https://material-digital.de/ / Ontology Playground |
| NFDI MatWerk | National (DFG) | Showcased | https://nfdi-matwerk.de/nfdi/2023/ |
| BIG-MAP | EU (HE) | Adapted | https://big-map.eu/ / Onterface |
| Battery2030+ | EU (HE) | Adapted | https://battery.knowledge-graph.eu |
| CircEl-Paper | EU (HE) | Adapted | https://circelpaper.projects01.open-semantic-lab.org |
| ReUse | EU (HE) | Adapted | https://reuse.projects01.open-semantic-lab.org/ |