Registered Data-Centered Lab Management System Based on Data Ownership Safety Architecture

Abstract

University and college laboratories are important places to train professional and technical personnel. Various regulatory departments in colleges and universities still rely on traditional laboratory management in research projects, which are prone to problems such as untimely information and data transmission. The present study aimed to propose a new method to solve the problem of data islands, explicit ownership, conditional sharing, data safety, and efficiency during laboratory data management. Hence, this study aimed to develop a data-centered lab management system that enhances the safety of lab data management and allows the data owners of the labs to control data sharing with other users. The architecture ensures data privacy by binding data ownership with a person using a key management method. To achieve data flow safely, data ownership conversion through the process of authorization and confirmation was introduced. The designed lab management system enables laboratory regulatory departments to receive data in a secure form by using this platform, which could solve data sharing barriers. Finally, the proposed system was applied and run in different server environments by implementing data security registration, authorization, confirmation, and conditional sharing using SM2, SM4, RSA, and AES algorithms. The system was evaluated in terms of the execution time for several lab data with different sizes. The findings of this study indicate that the proposed strategy is safe and efficient for lab data sharing across domains.

Preliminary Design and Construction Database for Laboratory Accidents

“…In our previous studies, we selected a suitable key algorithm to guarantee the unconditional sharing of data between data owners and users in the DAC. Chinese domestic commercial key SM 2 was employed for lab data which needed a high degree of protection and the advanced encryption standard (AES) was employed for normal lab-related data [28].…”

“…To ensure data ownership interest, persons were contacted to authorize ownership [28]. The data owner can put his data with his public key in the DRC; meanwhile, the DRC can generate categories automatically.…”

“…All related laboratory accident data stored in the DRC, including consumables broken, glass consumables in heating explosions, and experimental explosions, were designed for the proposed system. If an accident happened, lab staff needed to store the related data, such as accident time, location, experimenters, projects, chemicals, equipment, consumables, the real-time IOT equipment photo, and video into the DRC with an SM 2 or AES key algorithm to authorize data ownership [28].…”

“…If the research teams do not want to publicize their laboratory accident, they can encrypt their accident data into the system with their public key which even administrators cannot view without permission. However, if the lab needs emergency security or supervision, data can be authorized using a key algorithm [28]. Figure 11 illustrates how our system can collect both historical laboratory accident data and real-time accident data.…”

“…Applications for data ownership safety architecture are advantageous for the tourism industry [24], government information resource sharing, digital copyright works protection, and trading systems [25]. Managing chemistry laboratories has led to the establishment of a supervision management data framework [26], a lab experimental data trading workflow [27], and the unconditional sharing of lab-related data with key algorithms to make sure data transfer is efficient and safe [28].…”