First BatCAT paper about the project design

The recently published position paper “Battery manufacturing knowledge infrastructure requirements for multicriteria optimization based decision support in design of simulation” presents the focus of the BatCat project, the underlying architecture and the technologies based on it. LinkAhead is used as the core component of the data infrastructure and functions as a knowledgebase for exchanging data…

One is good, two are better. Our papers are published.

Publish two papers in one week? No problem for the IndiScale crew. This was of course pure coincidence, but we are pleased to announce both publications. “Mapping Hierarchical File Structures to Semantic Data Models for Efficient Data Integration into Research Data Management Systems” is on the concept of the LinkAhead Crawler, in which we discuss…

LinkAhead Relaunch

LinkAhead has been relaunched and is now more open and accessible for new and existing users. Our open source research data management software was previously available under two names: the original name CaosDB and LinkAhead. With this relaunch we are unifying the project under a single name: LinkAhead. With this step, we are also removing…

New LinkAhead Release 0.12.0

We just released a new LinkAhead version which updates the underlying components to their most recent releases (see gitlab.com/linkahead). Download LinkAhead Release 0.12.0 here! What’s New The new LinkAhead 0.12.0 release contains some new features, important bug fixes and we say goodbye to MySQL. Component Updates:

New LinkAhead Release 0.11.1

We just released, 0.11.1, a bug fix for 0.11.0. The installer now asks if the user has a subscription and sets sensible defaults if there is no subscription. We had overlooked that with the removal of the “trial” profile, everyone can use LinkAhead’s default Docker image. Additional note: If you used the “trial” profile before,…

New LinkAhead Release 0.11.0

We just released a new LinkAhead version which updates the underlying CaosDB components to their most recent releases (see gitlab.com/caosdb). Download LinkAhead Release 0.11.0 here! What’s New LinkAhead Release 0.11.0 contains important security updates. It removes the “annonymous admin” feature which was used for the obsolute LinkAhead Trail version in the past. The updated caosdb-webui component fixes…

Individual research data management with the FOSS LinkAhead + Q&A

Online Session Tuesday, 2023-08-2415:00 – 16:30 (3:00 – 4:30 pm) Access link here. How do you build a system from a historical, very individually grown data environment with a mix of legacy data, structured and semi-structured data that meets the needs of all stakeholders in a workgroup? Let’s imagine a mix of legacy table data,…

BIDS-LinkAhead-Integration recording is now available

Are you interested in integration of BIDS (Brain Imaging Data Structure) into LinkAhead? We prepared and recorded a one hour workshop exactly on this: With our new module, the LinkAhead-Crawler seamlessly integrates with BIDS folder structures, enabling efficient data management and enhancing collaboration especially in projects where BIDS is used along side other data structures.…

CaosDB is now LinkAhead

We are excited to announce that we will unify the whole CaosDB/LinkAhead project under the single name “LinkAhead”. Our experience in the recent years has shown that there is a lot of confusion between the two names, and drawing the line between them has become increasingly difficult. This is why you will see more announcements,…