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.

1. http://slideshare.net/cameronneylon

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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/

14. ...in the past 24 hours?

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

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

17. as...

19. is to...

21. The Lab that was Born on the
Web
Cameron Neylon

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/

24. Blog as journal...

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

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

27. Automatic Blogging by Machines

28. Integration and communication

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

33. Procedure Experiment
Material Sample
Data
Data Data
Analysis Analysis

34. Procedure Experiment
Material Sample
Material Sample
Material Sample
Data
Data Data
Data
Data
Analysis Analysis

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

38. Data Data
Data
Data Data
Data
Analysis
Procedure
Procedure Analysis
Procedure Procedure
Sample Material Sample Sample
Material Sample Sample
Material
Material Sample Sample
Time

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

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,
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provenance, security, etc...

44. Data Data
Data
Data Data
Data
Analysis
Procedure
Procedure Analysis
Procedure Procedure
Sample Material Sample Sample
Material Sample Sample
Material
Material Sample Sample
Time

45. 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

46. 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

47. Measuring solubility

48. http://onschallenge.wikispaces.com/Exp026

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

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

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

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

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

55. ...what are we left with?

56. Time

57. The feed of links between resources
Time

58. How do you capture this?

59. Lane Sample uL
1 [[DNA:%]] [[box]]
2 [[DNA:%]] [[box]]
3 [[DNA:%]] [[box]]
[[Section>Procedure]]
[[Procedure_Type>electrophoresis_agarose]]
[[Sandpit_group>ahm2007]]

60. Lane Sample uL
1 [[DNA:%]] [[box]]
2 [[DNA:%]] [[box]]
3 [[DNA:%]] [[box]]
[[Section>Procedure]]
[[Procedure_Type>electrophoresis_agarose]]
[[Sandpit_group>ahm2007]]

61. Lane Sample uL
1 [[DNA:%]] [[box]]
2 [[DNA:%]] [[box]]
3 [[DNA:%]] [[box]]
[[Section>Procedure]]
[[Procedure_Type>electrophoresis_agarose]]
[[Sandpit_group>ahm2007]]

62. A framework. Not a system.

63. Standardize the connections

64. Not the end points

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

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

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

80. The future will be about
leveraging other people’s data

81. Less “integration”. More “linking”.

82. 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