Can you describe your automation solution in more detail?
I mean automation of data collection and the collection of information about the data itself. I don't want to say that everything works perfectly, that's a long way off, but most people have experienced having to fill in their name, affiliation, email address and so on over and over again, even in EOSC Association documents. We fill in the same thing over and over again, and the system should know who we are by now. What I'm working on is to improve this so that, for example, the system recognises that it's me using my phone and fills in my affiliation straight away, instead of offering me a whole list of institutions in the Czech Republic. Using lab journals makes this even easier, because I can have ready-made templates and work structures with all the information about a given experiment. Often an experiment differs from the previous one in only two or three parameters. Because I've already written a protocol, it's not a problem to create a copy in an electronic journal where I just change the little things. Automation systems recognize different experiments and each has its own identifier. This brings us back to the archivists, but the trick is that the scientist doesn't need to know that these processes are running in the background, and doesn't need to assign identifiers to his experiments himself.