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Old presentation (2006!) about electronic lab notebook pilot at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology annual conference
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- 1. Electronic Lab Books Nicolas Bertrand, Environmental
Informatics e-Science Consultant
- 2. Overview
- 3. Scientific Lab books
- Day to day account of scientific research
- essential information about planning, designing and running of
scientific experiments
- A component of Quality Assurance
- Communication tool between project leader and scientist
- 4. What is a lab book?
- 5. Issues
- Archival, annotation, QA, reviewal and referencing of lab book
material is at the very least inconsistent
- 6. Examples
- 7. Opportunities
- 8. Electronic lab notebook: call for volunteers
- Maintain in parallel a paper based lab notebook and a personal
web-based lab book for a period of 3 Weeks.
- Provide regular feedback to build a desired feature list to
define requirements for an electronic lab notebook system for
CEH.
- 9. The Trial
- 10. More about Confluence
- Commercial Java-based blog + wiki
- Open API for extension and integration
- Source code available for developers
- Built on Open source technologies
- Attractive, user-friendly WYSIWYG interface
- Powerful tools for structuring and searching your wiki
- Professional features such as PDF export
- 11. Confluence Features (continued)
- 12. Confluence at CEH
- Environmental Informatics
- Countryside Survey Steering group
- Countryside Survey Surveyors
- High Performance Computing and e-Science Technical Advisory
Group
- Informatics Liaison Network
- Electronic lab book trial
- Electronic lab book discussion wiki
STATISTICS 701 pages 5447 versions 249 pages with attachments 1347
pages with attachments 1555 attachment versions 41 pages with
comments 123 comments 52 Authors
- 13. Volunteers 1. Darren Sleep (QA Manager, ECP Section,
Lancaster) - dsleep 2. Bob Possee (Head of Site. Virologist,
Oxford) - rdpo 3. Rob Griffiths (Microbiologist, Ecologist, Oxford)
- rig 4. Andrew Worgan (GIS / Organic Chemistry, Dorset) - adpw -
Start date: 06 July 2006 5. Jonathan Evans (Hydrologist,
Wallingforfd) - jge Start date: 24 july 2006 -- continuing to use
labbook despite end of pilot 6. David Wilson (ECP, Lancaster) -
drwi Start Date: 26 September 2006 7. David Williams (Field Support
/ Laboratory Technician, Bangor) 8. Mark Bescoby (Radiochemist,
Lancaster) start date: 26 September 2006 9. Neville Llewellyn
(Organic analytical chemist, Wallingford) 10. Thien Ho (Virologist,
Oxford) 11. Gillian Ainsworth (Environmental Chemist, Lancaster) -
Start date: 12 July 2006 12. Susan Brown (Microbiologist (amoeba),
Dorset) Start date: 17 july 2006 13. Jan Dick (Landscape
restoration ecologist, Edinburgh) - pulled out on 15 September 2006
14. Richard Ellis (Climate Modeller, Wallingford) Start date: 21
September 2006 continuing to use lab book despite end of pilot 15.
Fai Fung (Hydrologist, Wallingford) start date: 23 September
2006
- 14. Issues with the trial
- Lack of support for sketching / diagrams
- Not quite there as a replacement for a paper lab book (lab
environment / field work)
- 15. In the lab Digital Pens Digital lab book upload
- 16. Diagrams Gliffy Confluence plugin
(http://www.gliffy.com/)
- 17. Benefits of using Confluence
- Rich access control (closed, completely to groups,
individuals)
- Attach diagrams, documents
- Add semantics (tags/labels)
- Can subscribe to lab books (via RSS or email notification)
- Others can comment (effective peer review)
- Ability to structure Lab book information (in addition to
provision of diary function)
- Content can be locked, exported (archival)
- 18. What's next?
- Confluence has the potential to be fulfill many of the
requirements
- Small scale digital pen trial (field and lab)
- Confluence diagram plugin