Influence of Trust Factors on Shared Laboratory Resources in a Distributed Environment

Abstract : Every collaboration stands on a foundation of mutual trust. This is a pre-requisite for any information sharing as well as the basis to successfully carry out collaborative tasks. This article presents the use case of Open Digital Lab 4you, a digitized laboratory environment, and identifies relevant trust factors based on a literature review and action-based research. In this paper stakeholders’ needs and requirements are discussed and these are linked to several, critical aspects of trust when sharing resources among public institutions.