How-to guides#

Task-first recipes for people who already know the basics. Each link is a short recipe you can run today; none of them require reading the architecture pages first. New to BattINFO? The tutorials teach the model these recipes assume, and the glossary decodes the vocabulary.

I want to…

Recipe

Register the materials in my lab (actives, binders, salts, solvents)

Register materials

Describe an electrode recipe (96/2/2 coating, loading, thickness)

Build a cell from components, electrodes

Describe a cell I built from its parts (electrodes, electrolyte, separator, housing)

Build a cell from components

Log the cells on my bench (lab names, no serial numbers)

Label your cells

Register my cycler and its channels

Register equipment

Define a test protocol (CC-CV cycling, capacity check, EIS, …)

Test specs

Log a test run linked to a cell, a protocol, and a channel

Workspace authoring · Tutorial 3, Linked records

Convert a cycler export to a tidy table (NEWARE, Biologic, Maccor CSV, …)

Tutorial 6, Stage 1: Convert · unmapped columns? see troubleshooting

Validate my records and fix what’s wrong

Fix validation errors

Publish, and get a DOI

Tutorial 6, Publish your first dataset

Put labels / QR codes on my cells

Label your cells

Find out what already exists (my session, my library, the registry)

Find existing records

Ingest a whole folder of raw data files at once

Bulk ingest

Resume a submission I started earlier

Resume a submission

Tag records with funding and my ORCID

Tag funding and ORCID

When something doesn’t work#

The troubleshooting page covers the classic surprises: empty search results, template files that will not load, columns that vanish in conversion, IRIs that open a sign-in page, and validation errors about dates.

The 30-second orientation#

Everything in BattINFO is a spec (a reusable description: a material grade, a cell product, a test protocol) or an instance (a physical thing or event: this cell, this test run). You register specs once, point instances at them, and every saved record gets a permanent IRI you can print on a label or cite in a paper. The tutorials build this up properly.

Recipes