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- 1. Electronic Lab Books Nicolas Bertrand, Environmental Informatics e-Science Consultant
- 2. Overview
- Lab books in Science
- Issues
- Opportunities
- Trial
- Lessons learned
- Future Direction
- 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?
- Hard bound
- Diary
- (Index)
- Page numbers
- Chronological
- (Carbon copies)
- Sketches / diagrams
- Text
- Raw data
- Counter signature
- 5. Issues
- Not readily accessible
- Not searchable
- (Not readable)
- Easy to loose
- Archival, annotation, QA, reviewal and referencing of lab book material is at the very least inconsistent
- 6. Examples
- 7. Opportunities
- Searching
- Archival
- Sharing
- Openness
- Auditing
- Version Control
- Accessibility
- 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
- Web diary
- (a.k.a. Blog or
- weblog)
- Confluence (wiki & blog)
- 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
- Enterprise security
- 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
- Countryside Survey Steering group
- Countryside Survey Surveyors
- NERC Strategy Group
- High Performance Computing and e-Science Technical Advisory Group
- Trobit
- CCS
- EHFI Bids
- Informatics Liaison Network
- ISFG
- Mixture Toxicity
- edcat
- Electronic lab book trial
- Electronic lab book discussion wiki
- 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)
- No offline editing
- 15. In the lab Digital Pens Digital lab book upload
- 16. Diagrams Gliffy Confluence plugin (http://www.gliffy.com/)
- 17. Benefits of using Confluence
- Data sharing
- Rich access control (closed, completely to groups, individuals)
- Version control
- Searchable
- 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
- Lacks in some areas
- Extend the trial
- Small scale digital pen trial (field and lab)
- Confluence diagram plugin