One of the big arguments in favour of an Electronic Lab Notebook is of course the ability to share information with your co-workers.  However, despite the obvious benefits of sharing, there’s always the ‘cultural’ issue to deal with as well, i.e. how happy am I to share my ideas, records and data with my co-workers? [...]

Do end-users fit the informatics requirements?
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I wrote a previous item, Are your users revolting?, dealing with the subject of technology adoption, and the issues associated with user acceptance.  It is one of those topics that is absolutely central to the deployment of multi-user systems since user acceptance is regularly quoted as a success criterion.  Over a period of time I’ve [...]

Science always was, and always will be, a subject that promotes and provokes debate.  The quest for knowledge and the evaluation of ideas and theories forms the basis of the subject.  It seems then that Web 2.0 tools are a natural fit in our wired world to advance debate, and there is a growing body [...]

This week, I ran a workshop at a VIBEvents conference on Laboratory Data Management in Munich on the subject of The Integrated Laboratory of the Future.   Within the class, whilst we were talking about the current constraints on achieving a fully integrated environment, there was a specific point raised about our limited outlook as [...]