By Charlie Sodano, on August 13th, 2010
Media for Learning
It wasn’t that long ago when the only books to read were printed on paper. Electronic books have been around for more than 15 years, but only recently have caught on with the public. Try to remember the last time that you read a one of two pages that was hand written. [...]
By John Trigg, on March 30th, 2010
In the relentless pursuit of increased efficiency and better productivity in our laboratories we turn to computers and automation to drive out inefficient human and paper-based processes. So it was with some surprise that amongst my daily news feeds that keep me informed of the latest and greatest breakthroughs in laboratory matters, I came across [...]
By Sebastien Dupuis, on July 29th, 2009
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 review/approval. [...]
By Sebastien Dupuis, on July 9th, 2009
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 management, [...]
By John Trigg, on June 29th, 2009
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, and [...]