Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) is mentioned a lot these days as THE system for ECM (Enterprise Content Management) and document management.  Whether it is more marketing hype or real world results is up for debate but MOSS has features that are desirable as an ELN system: manage versions of documents, routing of documents for [...]

Hello everyone! As a new contributor to The Integrated Lab and my first time ever writing a blog entry, I was wondering how I would start contributing to the site and also how do you blog?
John’s earlier post “Tales from the Crypt” gave me that answer: Document Management.  Having done some projects related to document [...]

It’s hardly the most exciting subject, but long term retention is one of those topics that seem to lurk in the background whenever the subject of electronic records comes up.  With several centuries experience behind us, we’ve learned quite a bit about preserving paper records; Leonardo Da Vinci wrote his notes over 500 years ago, [...]

Simon Coles’ presentation from the VIB Conference on Laboratory Data Management entitled Walking the tightrope between scientists and lawyers is available on Slideshare.

One of the big challenges for research laboratories is getting the balance right between ‘need to know’ and ‘want to know’.  Most scientists will fall into the later category; after all, innovation depends on an inquisitive mind, and an open and sharing environment should act as a stimulus for discovery.  On the other side of [...]