Community Templates Library 🌐

Introduction

The RSpace Templates library is a community repository on GitHub where RSpace users share and discover reusable templates for their research workflows. Rather than building every Form, sample template, or vocabulary from scratch, you can browse what others have already created, download it, and adapt it to your own work.

The library lives here: github.com/rspace-os/rspace-templates

You do not need a GitHub account to browse and download templates. An account is only required if you want to contribute your own.

What you’ll find

The library is organised into three types of content:

• Document Templates - pre-filled documents built on RSpace Forms, containing structured content, placeholder text, or example data (for example lab protocols, data collection forms, experiment records, and quality control checklists).
• Inventory Examples - reference CSV files showing how others have structured their sample and container metadata in RSpace Inventory. These are best used as a starting point rather than a drop-in import, since field types and default values are configured manually on import.
• Vocabularies - controlled term lists (one term per row) for standardising tags in RSpace.

New and under-review submissions can be tracked on the library’s submission board.

Using a template

1. Browse the relevant folder in the repository, or check the submission board for items still under review.
2. Download the export file (.ZIP / .ELN for documents, or .CSV for inventory and vocabularies).
3. Import it into your RSpace instance and customise as needed.

For step-by-step import instructions, see the existing RSpace documentation:

• Document Templates and Forms: Sharing Forms Between RSpace Servers
• Inventory sample templates: Create and Use Sample Templates 🧪

Sharing your own template

Contributions are welcome. The repository’s CONTRIBUTING guide explains the submission format and the review process for getting your template published in the library.