Portable electronic information devices
There’s not too many days that pass without someone telling me about the latest app they downloaded to their phone. Many all of these apps are for entertainment and a few are for helping to manage information more effectively. Don’t get me wrong. I love these apps too. [...]

Records Management Standards
Several years ago I came up with a scheme to file electronic records. All of my friends and family loved it. I even designed a template that made it easy for people to follow the scheme. About a year later, I asked one of my friends how the scheme was [...]

Metadata
When I was in college one of the required courses in my field of study was metaphysics, a branch of philosophy that investigates principles of reality transcending those of any particular science. Someone who studies metaphysics is called a “metaphysician”. When I first heard about metadata some years later, I immediately conjured up a [...]

The subject of raw data has crept into the vocabulary of the media recently with alleged wrong doings amongst scientists in connection with data related to climate change.  The matter has unsurprisingly been dubbed ‘climategate’ and is currently chalking up over 28,000,000 hits on Google.  The underlying issues, if they are real, are political, and [...]

This is Colin Sandercock’s presentation on the legal issues of ELNs, presented at the IQPC ELNs and Advanced Laboratory Solutions Conference in Brussels, September 2009.
With grateful thanks to Colin for permission to post the presentation here.
Legal Issues Of ELNs
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