Wiki software based upon and linked with research data management systems. A wiki interface to a research data storage shows user-friendly multimedia descriptions. At the same time, the wiki pages are linked to the underlying raw data for visitors with the desire to dive deep into the data.

Sample storage, management and lending systems: Physical samples from scientific experiments are stored together with their provenance information in a data management system. Other researchers can request access to samples, their method, results and publications are linked to the samples’ data entries and the original descriptions.

Visualization and calculation of individual infectious disease risks, based on physical and epidemiological parameters: Users can enter parameters for multiple everyday situations and get a risk assessment how probable an infection with COVID-19 is, according to published and peer-reviewed numerical methods.

Real-time remote control of scientific experimental setups, with logging and fast intuitive user interfaces: An experimental setup in the life sciences was equipped with software to record physiological time series, do real-time optical and electrical spectrum and entropy analysis. The software reacted on the obtained parameters by sending control commands to other devices of the setup.

Barcode scanning integration with lab data acquisition: Fast data processing, high user acceptance and low error rates by integrating barcodes into the automated data integration workflows. Customized web-based data input for multimodal scientific imaging environments.

Real-time hardware input with bidirectional user interaction: A hardware demonstrator for data management education purposes used gamification elements to invite users to insert data into LinkAhead. Users had to react to optical stimuli in several modes of increasing difficulty.