A Collaborative Platform for Sharing Scientific Data and Experiments: Application to Characterization Experiments of Photovoltaic Cells

Abstract

A platform of collaborative work is a centralizing tool of information related to the conduct of a project or a collective mission. The collaboration allows project participants to work together by sharing information, processes, and common values. On the other hand, free software provides powerful applications ready to be integrated for the construction of applications and internal platforms to the organizations. A platform of collaborative work mainly intended for the development of technical artefacts like software, even if it is initially conceived for the lodging of projects and the management of their development, in practice it is also useful for many types of projects of collaborative work within the institutions where it is deployed. The project of technological exchanges will propose a platform "ready to use" which we believe is able to integrate into many environments, including institutions of higher education and research. This platform is realized by integrating a set of free software, to better ensure the scalability of internal applications: forge Libre Source, php Group ware, Wiki, sympa, Web-Dav, OpenLDAP as a component for specific application development.