{"id":1048325,"date":"2010-05-07T21:17:34","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T21:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/the-scientist-article-on-electronic-lab-notebooks\/"},"modified":"2024-08-17T17:54:49","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T21:54:49","slug":"the-scientist-article-on-electronic-lab-notebooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/chemistry\/the-scientist-article-on-electronic-lab-notebooks.php","title":{"rendered":"The Scientist Article on Electronic Lab Notebooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amberldance.com\/Amber%20Dance--science%20writing\/Amber%20Dance--Science%20Writer.html\">Amber Dance<\/a> has written an article in The Scientist (2010-05-01) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-scientist.com\/article\/display\/57363\/\">Digital Upgrade: How to choose your lab&rsquo;s next electronic lab notebook<\/a>. This is basically a quick overview of different Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELNs) that should be helpful for people researching what is currently available in that space.<\/p><p>There was some coverage of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Open_Notebook_Science\">Open Notebook Science<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/stevekoch\">Steve Koch<\/a> and I were quoted.  Ironically my contribution appeared in the \"Cons\" section \ud83d\ude42<\/p><blockquote><p><strong>Pros<\/strong>  <\/p><ul><li>The format is unconstrained&mdash;you can set up any categories, and as  many users and pages, as you want&mdash;and fast to set up.<\/li><li>Open notebooking attracts collaborators. Koch counts three  collaborations that wouldn&rsquo;t have happened if he weren&rsquo;t on OpenWetWare.  And his students build professional networks well before they author a  paper.<\/li><\/ul><p><strong>Cons<\/strong>  <\/p><ul><li>Wikis were not designed with scientific data in mind. For example,  it&rsquo;s hard to make a table, Koch says.<\/li><li>Open notebook science &ldquo;does limit where you can send your work,&rdquo;  says Jean-Claude Bradley, a chemist at Drexel University in  Philadelphia, who also uses an open wiki notebook. His lab sticks to  journals that accept preprints.<\/li><li>Posting online voids international patent rights, although US  patents are still possible.<\/li><\/ul><\/blockquote><p>In my opinion, one of the biggest \"Pros\" wasn't listed in that section: the free cost. (That was mentioned elsewhere though)  When you see the costs of some of these other commercial systems, that has to be a factor for many people trying to make a decision.<\/p><p>If privacy is an issue wikis can certainly be made private, although I'm not sure if that is possible on OpenWetWare.  It can be done for $5\/month on Wikispaces, the wiki we use for lab notebooks - although then it wouldn't be Open Notebook Science.<\/p><p>Concerning Steve's Con of wikis being difficult to use to store data, that is true.  However combining the use of a wiki with Google Spreadsheets has completely resolved that issue for us.  With our ability to automatically <a href=\"http:\/\/usefulchem.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/ons-solubility-book-edition-3-with.html\">export an archive<\/a> of the notebook (as HTML) and spreadsheets (as XLS) into an integrated archive, the two platforms operate essentially as if they were a single system.<\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/d51fd_14568785-3900179893684179889?l=usefulchem.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amber Dance has written an article in The Scientist (2010-05-01) Digital Upgrade: How to choose your lab&rsquo;s next electronic lab notebook. This is basically a quick overview of different Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELNs) that should be helpful for people researching &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/chemistry\/the-scientist-article-on-electronic-lab-notebooks.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1246863],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048325"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}