Following on from my post about Notebook Sharing, here’s another blog post wrestling with the consequences of changing from paper to electronic lab notebooks. Interestingly, the prospect of using an Apple iPad as an ELN gets some consideration.  I suspect that we’re going to hear a lot more about iPads in due course.

There’s a new Electronic Laboratory Notebook Group on LinkedIn – follow the link to join.  This is the third ELN group to appear within the LinkedIn framework; you can read the rationale for establishing the group here.

The SMi Group held their annual ELN conference in London last week, under the title ‘ELN: Laboratory Informatics for the 21st Century’. The programme contained a full range of good quality presentations on all aspects of ELNs and related topics that represented the state of the industry. As with most conferences on this [...]

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 [...]

When it comes to purchasing and implementing laboratory systems’ software, return on investment is inevitably one of the key drivers. The up-front requirements to justify the expenditure are usually aligned to process improvement and productivity. In the case of Electronic Laboratory Notebooks, there’s usually a secondary, and unquantifiable requirement about improving knowledge management [...]