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 [...]

The  Scientific Computing World ‘Laboratory Informatics Guide 2010‘ is available on-line here.

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 [...]

Over on Richard Gayle’s Blog Spreading Science, I read a post entitled Scientists need to tell better stories. It touches on a point that has bothered me for a while now, and that is that the basic structure and discipline of the scientific method demands a particular style of documentation, and that style often [...]