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The connected research commons

From first idea to lasting impact.

Start a research once and CHERT Research builds its workspace in every tool — lab notebook, notebooks, experiment tracking, data versions, data management plan, repository, journal and public profile. One account, one team, one evidence trail, in English and Arabic.

Start your research Watch a research move
Lifecycle stages
12
Research services
9
Open-source components
29
Languages
2

Three ways in

Whoever moves the research forward, there is a place for them

Researchers do the work in the tools they already know. Research leads see every requirement and every stage. Editors and the public meet the result — citable, attributed and bilingual.

I do research

Sign in once and open your research in the lab notebook, a Jupyter workspace, experiment tracking or the repository — each already set up with your team and your research folder.

I lead a research

Create the research, set its sensitivity, build the team by username, e-mail or invite link, and follow every requirement, its source and its evidence — stage by stage.

I edit, review or read

Manuscripts arrive in CHERT Journals linked to the research behind them; datasets carry DOIs; public profiles show who did what — in Arabic and English.

One research, every workspace

Create a research once. It appears in every service — already set up.

The research is the unit of ownership and access. When you create one, the platform provisions its workspace in each engine through that engine's own interface and places the team in all of them. No copies, no second accounts.

Your research team · sensitivity · requirements
  • CHERT PlanningDMP project
  • CHERT LabLab team
  • CHERT ComputeResearch folder
  • CHERT ExperimentsExperiment
  • CHERT Data VersionsData path
  • CHERT RepositoryCommunity
  • CHERT JournalsLinked manuscripts
  • CHERT ProfilesProject profile
  • CHERT IdentityTeam group

The research lifecycle

Every research moves through the same twelve stages. CHERT Research covers all of them.

A stage completes on its own — from verified evidence and approved gates, not by ticking a box. Select a stage to see what happens and which parts of the platform make it work.

Stage 01 / 12

Proposal

A research is born

The lead creates the research with its title, summary and sensitivity class. The platform records who created it and when, and starts its timeline.

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Stage 02 / 12

Funding

Who funds it, and what that requires

Funding is part of the research record — and it changes the obligations: a funded research handling personal data is asked for a data management plan, with the reason shown.

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Stage 03 / 12

Ethics approval

Before people, animals or sites

Research involving human participants, personal data or animals needs an ethics determination or approval before data collection. The record lives in CHERT Lab, where evidence detection finds it.

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Data management plan

A machine-actionable plan

The research gets its own plan in CHERT Planning, aligned with Horizon Europe and the RDA machine-actionable DMP standard. The generated plan document is the evidence.

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Team assembled

One team, placed everywhere

Add people by username or e-mail, or share an invite link valid for 14 days. Roles run from lead to observer, and every member is placed in the research's workspace in each service.

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Lab work

Protocols and records

Experiments, protocols and checklists are recorded in the research's Lab team. Once approved, the plan and the ethics requirements gate this stage.

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Analysis

Notebooks next to the data

A Jupyter workspace opens with the research folder mounted for every member; runs, parameters, metrics and models are tracked in CHERT Experiments.

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Data versioned

Every dataset revision kept

From the notebook, datasets are pushed to the research's own data path, so a result can always be traced to the exact data that produced it.

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Publication

Peer review, linked to its research

Manuscripts go through the CHERT Journals editorial workflow and are linked to the research. Reporting checklists such as PRISMA, STROBE and CONSORT apply where the study type calls for them.

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Milestones

Progress you can read

Stage by stage, progress shows on the research page and the dashboard — completed milestones out of twelve, with the next required action on top.

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Stage 12 / 12

Budget

Closing the research record

The budget sits in the research definition with funding and milestones. "Completed" is earned, not set: every mandatory criterion met, or a written override from the named authority.

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Interactive architecture

Every layer of a research platform — and the CHERT component that runs it

Select any component to learn what it does, or play a journey and watch a research move through the platform.

Select a component or play a journey.
01

Researchers & access

Where people arrive, work and hear back.

02

Research core

The research record and the rules that move it forward.

03

Plan, record & analyse

The specialist tools where the work is done.

04

Preserve, publish & be found

What the research leaves behind — citable and attributed.

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Identity & protection

One identity; access follows the research.

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Operations

Keeping the commons healthy and recoverable.

Details appear in the panel above the diagram.

Standards built in

Requirements that cite their source — and check their own evidence

Requirements are data, not folklore: each one names its standard and version, says why it applies to this research, and is satisfied by evidence read from the engines. They ship advisory and become gates only once reviewed and approved.

Required

Data management plan

Source Horizon Europe · RDA maDMP

Stage Lab work

Required

Ethics review / approval

Source Institutional review board

Stage Lab work

Recommended

Research protocol

Source CHERT platform guidance

Stage Lab work

Required

Data classification

Source CHERT platform policy

Stage Data versioned

Recommended

Datasets under version control

Source CHERT platform guidance

Stage Data versioned

Required

Dataset deposited with a DOI

Source CHERT platform policy

Stage Publication

Recommended

FAIR data practices

Source FORCE11 FAIR Principles

Stage Deposit

Required

PRISMA reporting checklist

Source PRISMA 2020

Stage Publication

Where the study type calls for it
Required

STROBE reporting checklist

Source STROBE Statement

Stage Publication

Where the study type calls for it
Required

CONSORT reporting checklist

Source CONSORT 2010

Stage Publication

Where the study type calls for it

Checklist texts are copyright of their authors; CHERT stores the structure and links to the authoritative source.

Every function, at a glance

Everything a research needs — already in the platform

No modules to bolt on. Every capability below shares one research, one team and one evidence trail.

Research records

  • Title, summary, lead and team
  • Proposed, active, suspended, completed, archived
  • Five sensitivity classes
  • Every workspace created automatically

Teams

  • Five roles, from lead to observer
  • Add by username or e-mail
  • Invite links valid for 14 days
  • Members placed in every engine

Requirements & gates

  • Rules from named standards, versioned
  • "Why this applies" on every item
  • Next required action on top
  • Overrides need a written reason

Evidence

  • Detected in each engine via its API
  • Refresh evidence on demand
  • Per-requirement action links
  • Durable, attributed timeline

Data management plans

  • One plan per research
  • Opened from the research page
  • Generated plan documents
  • Aligned with RDA maDMP

Lab notebook

  • Experiments, resources, templates
  • A Lab team per research
  • Protocols and checklists
  • Arabic, right-to-left

Compute & analysis

  • Jupyter notebook servers
  • Persistent home directories
  • Research folder for every member
  • Signed, short-lived launch

Experiment tracking

  • Parameters, metrics, artifacts
  • Model registry
  • An experiment per research
  • Arabic and English interface

Repository & DOIs

  • DOI on every published record
  • Versions, licences, file previews
  • A community per research
  • Members provisioned in advance

Journals

  • Submission to decision workflow
  • Authors, reviewers, editors
  • Manuscripts linked to research
  • Arabic and English journal pages

Profiles & attribution

  • Researcher and organisation profiles
  • Project profiles from the research
  • Public-only publication policy
  • The research graph

Identity & protection

  • One account, single sign-on
  • Open self-registration
  • Access by research and sensitivity
  • Every route behind the gateway

One platform, nine services

One research in charge. Proven open-source engines doing the heavy lifting.

Each service does one job well and opens already scoped to your research — behind one sign-in, in your language.

Data management plans

CHERT Planning

Write the research's data management plan with guided questions and generate the plan document funders ask for.

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Electronic lab notebook

CHERT Lab

Experiments, protocols, resources and team records — searchable, timestamped and shared with exactly your team.

lab.chertresearch.com

Notebooks

CHERT Compute

Jupyter servers where the data already is, with persistent home directories and your research folder mounted.

chertresearch.com/compute

Experiment tracking

CHERT Experiments

Parameters, metrics and artifacts for every run, compared side by side, with a model registry.

chertresearch.com/experiments

Dataset versions

CHERT Data Versions

Content-addressed dataset versions, used from a CHERT Compute notebook and stored in the research's own path.

chertresearch.com/compute

Repository

CHERT Repository

Deposit datasets as citable, versioned, preserved records with a DOI — in the research's own community.

repository.chertresearch.com

Journals

CHERT Journals

Journal publishing with a real peer-review editorial workflow, starting with the CHERT Journal of Applied Research.

chertresearch.com/journals

Profiles & research graph

CHERT Profiles

Public researcher profiles, organisations, research and the capability map that connects them.

chertresearch.com/profiles

Identity

CHERT Identity

One account for every CHERT service. Manage your profile, password and sessions in one place.

identity.chertresearch.com

The open research stack

Proven systems. Integrated as one CHERT platform.

CHERT Research stands on mature open-source software, pinned to exact releases and integrated through each engine's own interfaces. Licences are preserved; source is available on request.

  1. Research services

    9 systems
    Researcher-facing

    The specialist environments researchers use to create, analyse, preserve and publish knowledge.

    • eLabFTWAGPL-3.0CHERT Lab — electronic lab notebook
    • JupyterHubBSD-3-ClauseCHERT Compute
    • Zero to JupyterHubBSD-3-ClauseJupyterHub on Kubernetes
    • MLflowApache-2.0CHERT Experiments
    • DVCApache-2.0CHERT Data Versions
    • Data Stewardship WizardApache-2.0CHERT Planning — data management plans
    • InvenioRDMMITCHERT Repository
    • OJSGPL-3.0CHERT Journals
    • VIVOBSD-3-ClauseCHERT Profiles and research graph

  2. Integration fabric

    4 systems
    Internal infrastructure

    Identity, protected access, durable events and unified discovery turn separate tools into one platform.

    • KeycloakApache-2.0Identity and SSO
    • oauth2-proxyMITOIDC access gateway
    • NATS + JetStreamApache-2.0Durable events and attribution chain
    • OpenSearchApache-2.0Unified discovery and indexing

  3. Data foundation

    4 systems
    Internal infrastructure

    Purpose-fit relational and object storage supports records, journals, labs, artifacts and datasets.

    • PostgreSQLPostgreSQLCore relational storage
    • MariaDBGPL-2.0Journal relational storage
    • MySQLGPL-2.0Lab relational storage
    • SeaweedFSApache-2.0S3-compatible artifact and dataset storage

  4. Platform operations

    8 systems
    Internal infrastructure

    Orchestration, secure ingress, certificates, software supply chain, observability and recovery.

    • k3sApache-2.0Kubernetes runtime
    • TraefikMITIngress and routing
    • cert-managerApache-2.0Certificate lifecycle
    • HarborApache-2.0Registry, scanning and supply chain
    • ResticBSD-2-ClauseEncrypted backup and recovery
    • PrometheusApache-2.0Metrics
    • LokiAGPL-3.0Logs
    • GrafanaAGPL-3.0Operational visualisation

  5. Engine internals

    4 systems
    Internal infrastructure

    Mature cache, queue, indexing and serving components strengthen the specialist research engines.

    • RedisAGPL-3.0Repository cache
    • RabbitMQMPL-2.0Repository background queue
    • SolrApache-2.0VIVO profile indexing
    • nginxBSD-2-ClausePortal serving

Licences verified against the pinned engine inventory · 9 Oct 2026

Why CHERT Research

Built so that the work, the evidence and the credit stay connected

The research is the unit

Ownership and access follow the research and its sensitivity class — never the institution. Collaboration across institutions is the purpose, not a leak.

Arabic and English, equally

Every surface ships in both languages with proper right-to-left Arabic — the site, the dashboard, the lab notebook, experiment tracking and the sign-in.

Evidence, not self-reporting

Progress is read from the engines — a plan, a record, a run, a DOI — and every decision is an attributed event on the timeline.

Standards you can cite

Requirements carry their source and version, explain why they apply and ship advisory until reviewed — no invented rules.

Self-hosted and sovereign

Every engine runs on CHERT's own infrastructure with pinned releases, encrypted backups and no per-seat licences.

Confidential by construction

Five sensitivity classes, a public-only publication policy for profiles and every non-public route behind one identity gateway.

What comes next

In construction — shown honestly, not simulated

  • Publication GatewayTarget-journal registry, requirements engine and assisted submission packaging.
    In construction · Roadmap T3
  • Impact EngineInstitutional reporting generated from the research graph, not assembled by hand.
    In construction · Roadmap T5

Your research deserves one connected home.

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