Digital Landscape

A map of our digital landscape for Research and Data Management: Tools and Processes

Topic	Name	Link	Description
TU-ID	IDM-Portal	https://idm.tu-darmstadt.de	Information about your account at TUDa (TU-ID, Name, Email, Athene-Card etc.)
Security	Sophos Central Intercept X	https://www.tu-darmstadt.de/it-sicherheit/services/endpoint_protection/ep.en.jsp	Protection against IT security threats (attacks, malware, viruses, etc.)
VPN-Clients	Cisco AnyConnect
	OpenConnect
Password Manager	KeePassXC	https://keepassxc.org	Open source passwordmanager for many systems including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS
Communication	Groupware (Microsoft Exchange)	https://mail.tu-darmstadt.de	Outlook Web Access (OWA) for Email, Calendar, Tasks and Contacts
	Matrix / Element	https://element.matrix.tu-darmstadt.de	Open source and secure communications platform
	Jabber / Cisco Webex
	Zoom
	BigBlueButon TUDa	https://tu-darmstadt.heconf.de	Open-source web conferencing system
Lab & IT Infos	Moodle Course: Lab & IT Info for Macromolecular Chemistry	https://moodle.tu-darmstadt.de/course/view.php?id=37923	Detailed informations about our digital landscape including instructions of why and how to use them can be found here.
Data storage	next.Hessenbox	https://next.hessenbox.de	Collaborative filestorage and office suite (OnlyOffice)
	MAP-Seki	see Lab & IT Infos	Network drive for the secretariat and organisational matters of the group
	MAP-Data	see Lab & IT Infos	Network drive for data generated on measurement setups. Temporary storage only – all data must be transferred to your own notebook or the MAP-Vault server.
	MAP-Vault	see Lab & IT Infos	Fileserver — final destination of all data.
Backup & Sync	Arq-Backup	see Lab & IT Infos	Backup process for data on your notebook
	FreeFileSync	https://freefilesync.org	Open Source File and Folder Synchronization Tool
Inventory	CLAKS	https://claks-01.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de	Database for chemicals present in our group, including laboratory safety and risk assessments.
	LABSUIT	https://www.app.labsuit.com	Database for biologicals (DNA, proteins, cells) present in our group.
Electronic Labjournal	eLabFTW	https://eln01-t.ca.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de	Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN) for documenting the planning, execution and evaluation of scientific experiments. The research equipment used (TUinfra) and the storage location of the associated data (MAP-Vault) must be specified in the experiment description.
Research Equipment	TUinfra	https://www.tuinfra.tu-darmstadt.de	Campus wide database and booking platform of research equipment and information about vailable methodologies.
Reseach data management	TUdmo	https://tudmo.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de	TU Darmstadt‘s Data Management Tool to create data management plans (DMP) for research projects.
	TUdatalib	https://tudatalib.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de	TU Darmstadt‘s institutional repository for research data generated at TU Darmstadt. Data must be uploaded in a structured and well-described form in accordance with the rules of research data management.
	TUprints	https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de	TU Darmstadt‘s institutional repository to publish scientific research papers as primary or secondary electronic publication.
Literature management	Zotero	https://www.zotero.org/groups/4636918/macromolecular_and_paper_chemistry_map/library	Open source and crossplattform literature reference management software. Our group has unlimited PDF storage on the Zotero server.
	Citavi	http://www.citavi.com/tu-darmstadt	Citavi 6 Campus licence for all students and staff (Windows and Citavi Web)
Data analysis	LabPlot	https://labplot.org	Data Analysis, Plotting and Visualization
	JupyterLab	https://www.tu-darmstadt.de/tudata/dienste/jupyterhub/jupyterhub.de.jsp
	Fiji	https://fiji.sc	Image Analysis
Writing	Sharelatex	https://sharelatex.tu-darmstadt.de	Online Latex writing environment
	next.Hessenbox	https://next.hessenbox.de	Collaborative filestorage and office suite (OnlyOffice)
	Gitlab	https://git.rwth-aachen.de/users/sign_in
Useful online tools	Chat AI	https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/686446.html	Chatbot of the GWDG (Götingen). All prompts and answers are only saved locally on the user device, within one session. Closing the website deletes all prompts and answers. However, this only applies to the internal LLMs (Mixtral, Qwen und Meta). When using OpenAI models, all requests will be passed along to them.
	Gigamove	https://gigamove.rwth-aachen.de/de	Online service to share files up to 100 GB
	Link shortener	https://t1p.de	Online services for shortening internet links
	Password Generator	https://passwords-generator.org	Online service for generating passwords
	Scheduling & Survey Tool	https://terminplaner6.dfn.de	Online meeting scheduling tool.