Talk given to SMi Electronic Lab Notebook conference in London, 29 January 2009. The talk focusses on the idea of what a web native lab notebook would look like and proposes that it would be a feed of relationships between digital objects.
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12. Please suspend disbelief...
- security
- IP
- regulatory issues
...I will come back to them
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nihilenz/2545518545
13. In the last five years...?
http://flickr.com/photos/stewart/461099066/
22. 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”)
23. Lab book as a journal...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nbachiyski/2186228572/
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36. 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)
37. Data Data
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38. Data Data
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43. 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...
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45. Data Data
Samples can be offloaded... Data
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LIMS, Database, Blog, Wiki, Spreadsheet...
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Procedures are just documents... Data
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65. 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
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72. “If my business model was based on control
I’d be getting real worried right about now”
John Wilbanks,Vice President, Science Commons
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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