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Please suspend disbelief...
- security
- IP
- regulatory issues
...I will come back to them
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nihilenz/2545518545

In the last five years...?
http://flickr.com/photos/stewart/461099066/

...in the past 24 hours?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nbachiyski/2186228572/

...is to the fully integrated
laboratory record...

as...

is to...

The Lab that was Born on the
Web
Cameron Neylon

The premise....
Most of what is needed to build a fully
integrated laboratory recording system can be
found, for free, in existing web services...
(it does lack a little polish admittedly)
It just needs to be wired up (that’s a big “just”)

Lab book as a journal...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nbachiyski/2186228572/

Blog as journal...

Description, date
categorisation,
objects, identity,
accessibility...
...not of much
interest to most
people

http://biolab.isis.rl.ac.uk/projects/blog/

Automatic Blogging by Machines

Integration and communication

http://biolab.isis.rl.ac.uk/projects/blog/

Procedure Experiment
Material Sample
Data
Data Data
Analysis Analysis

Procedure Experiment
Material Sample
Material Sample
Material Sample
Data
Data Data
Data
Data
Analysis Analysis

Schema?
Stuff gets combined with other stuff and
stuff is done to it to make more stuff.
(Meaning can be layered on later
according to specific needs)

Data Data
Data
Data Data
Data
Analysis
Procedure
Procedure Analysis
Procedure Procedure
Sample Material Sample Sample
Material Sample Sample
Material
Material Sample Sample
Time

Data Data
Data
Data Data
Data
Analysis
Procedure
Procedure Analysis
Procedure Procedure
Sample Material Sample Sample
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Material
Material Sample Sample
Time

Data services
...get someone else to do the heavy lifting...

Good data services will...
Provide a URL endpoint for any item

Will understand your data type enough...

...to provide simple embed codes and more
sophisticated re-packaging where required
Handle versioning, identity, date stamps,

provenance, security, etc...

Data Data
Data
Data Data
Data
Analysis
Procedure
Procedure Analysis
Procedure Procedure
Sample Material Sample Sample
Material Sample Sample
Material
Material Sample Sample
Time

Data Data
Samples can be offloaded... Data
Data Data
Data
Analysis
Procedure
Procedure Analysis
LIMS, Database, Blog, Wiki, Spreadsheet...
Procedure Procedure
Sample Material Sample Sample
Material Sample Sample
Material
Material Sample Sample
Time

Data Data
Procedures are just documents... Data
Data Data
Data
Analysis
Procedure
Procedure Analysis
Procedure Procedure
Sample Material Sample Sample
Material Sample Sample
Material
Material Sample Sample
Time

Measuring solubility

http://onschallenge.wikispaces.com/Exp026

http://tinyurl.com/ons-challenge-spreadsheet

http://oru.edu/cccda/sl/descriptorspace/ds.php

http://oru.edu/cccda/sl/descriptorspace/ds.php

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Drexel/165/178/24

If we push it all out to other services...

...what are we left with?

Time

The feed of links between resources
Time

How do you capture this?

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A framework. Not a system.

Standardize the connections

Not the end points

The architecture is already in place
The standards already exist
There is a massive infrastructure in place
Use whatever tools you(r users) want...
....just provide an accessible endpoint

“If my business model was based on control
I’d be getting real worried right about now”
John Wilbanks,Vice President, Science Commons

...delivery of information to the
right place, at the right time...

The future will be about
leveraging other people’s data

Less “integration”. More “linking”.

Jeremy Frey
Jenny Hale
Andrew Milsted
Southampton development team
Simon Coles
Steve Wilson
Mark Borkum
Dave de Roure
Jean-Claude Bradley
Rajarshi Guha
Open Notebook Science
Andy Lang
Solubility Challenge
Antony Williams
Egon Willighagen
Pierre Lindenbaum