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Welcome to the Collaboration Laboratory, the knowledge base of the Max Planck Digital Library
The Collaboration Laboratory (CoLab) is an interactive platform for sharing information, knowledge, and experiences in the context of eScience and information management. A complementary overview of all MPDL activities is available on the MPDL homepage. The MediaWiki CoLab consists of 6,394 pages, 2,303 articles, 2,079 files and 112,922 edits are done by 840 registered users.

Software

				eSciDoc eSciDoc is an e-research environment designed especially for the global and interdisciplinary collaboration of scientific and scholarly communities eSciDoc Home Getting Started
				PubMan PubMan – a repository software based on eSciDoc – supports research organizations in managing, disseminating, and re-using publication data, full texts, and supplementary material MPG Publication Repository PubMan Support Entwicklung und Priorisierung

Projects

				AWOB, the Astronomer's Workbench AWOB, a web-based platform, assists astronomers to coordinate their projects and to share data products, figures and texts. AWOB Home Productive Version AWOB Blog
				imeji – Publish Your Scientific Multimedia Data! imeji creates citable research assets by describing, enriching, sharing, exposing and linking data. The imeji software offers a dedicated metadata management by supporting a non-restrictive metadata schema definition, as simple as liked or as complex as needed. more on imeji Features Installation
				DLC, the Digitization Lifecycle The web-based platform DLC provides access to digitized resources (images and full text). Generic functionalities allow to index, edit, publish and annotate digital works. more on Digitization Lifecycle project summary