👋 Welcome to RSpace

RSpace is an open-source research data management platform designed to be a user-friendly and integrated frontend for researchers to efficiently connect and utilize research infrastructure in sustainable FAIR research workflows across the entire research lifecycle.

What RSpace Does

• Electronic Lab Notebook — document experiments, protocols, and observations with rich media, templates, version control, and full auditability
• Inventory Management — track samples, reagents, and equipment with customizable metadata, locations, and relationships
• Infrastructure Orchestration — connect research workflows with the tools and services your institution uses
• FAIR Data — built-in features and persistent identifiers to make research data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable

Getting Started

Try RSpace

• Run locally with Docker — quickest way to get RSpace running on your own machine
• Request a demo

Developer Setup

Everything you need to build and run RSpace from source:

→ Developer Getting Started Guide

This covers dependencies, database setup, building the project, running RSpace locally, and IDE configuration.

Contributing

We welcome contributions of all kinds — code, UX, documentation, templates, integrations, and more.

→ Guide to the RSpace Project — your guide to the project and how to contribute

→ Getting Started as a Contributor — read this before your first contribution

→ Roadmap — where we're headed and where to get involved

Community

• 📅 Office Hours — bi-monthly community call, open to all
• 📬 Stay in touch — newsletter, Mastodon, LinkedIn, Bluesky, and more

Documentation

• User Documentation — guides and reference for researchers using RSpace
• API Reference — REST API documentation and interactive explorer
• DevDocs — developer documentation: architecture, coding standards, development workflows