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add elab2ARC in ELN article
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Sabrina Zander committed Dec 10, 2024
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Protocols generated in ELNs integrate well with the [Annotated Research Context (ARC)](/nfdi4plants.knowledgebase/core-concepts/arc). Protocols and the metadata they contain have a dedicated place and schema within the ARC. Each study and assay subfolder in the ARC comes with a folder called `protocols`. This folder collects all protocols associated with a particular set of data files in the `dataset` folder. In addition, the `isa.study.xlsx` and `isa.assay.xlsx` workbooks associated with each study or assay, help to communicate the protocol metadata in a structured and machine-readable way.

To simplify the integration of protocols and metadata from ELNs into ARC, DataPLANT has delevoped the tool [elab2ARC](/nfdi4plants.knowledgebase/resources/elab2arc/), which automates the conversion of [eLabFTW](https://www.elabftw.net/) experiments into ARC format.

Since ARCs are designed as FAIR digital objects which combine the data files with the metadata into one research data package, they facilitate the storage, shareing, and reuse of the research data as a whole.

![Arcify Protocols](@images/fundamentals/protocols2arc.drawio.png)

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