As research becomes predominantly digitalized, scientists have the option of using
electronic laboratory notebooks to record and access entries. These systems can more …

Electronic laboratory notebooks (ELNs) are increasingly replacing paper notebooks in life
science laboratories, including those in industry, academic settings, and hospitals. ELNs …

Despite the increasingly digital nature of society there are some areas of research that
remain firmly rooted in the past; in this case the laboratory notebook, the last remaining …

The essays in Science and the Internet address the timely topic of how digital tools are
shaping science communication. Featuring chapters by leading scholars of the rhetoric of …

When the effort to curate and preserve data is made at the end of a project, there is little
opportunity to leverage ongoing research work to reduce curation costs or conversely, to …

Prolific adoption of digital media across scientific fields has led to inevitable transformation
of a traditional lab book into an electronic lab notebook (ELN). Research so far has focussed …

Scientific research is increasingly characterised by the volume of documents and data that it
produces, from experimental plans and raw data to reports and papers. Researchers …

The Semantic Web is beginning to impact on the wider chemical and physical sciences,
beyond the earlier adopted bio-informatics. While useful in large-scale data driven science …

The CombeChem e-Science project has demonstrated the advantages of using Semantic
Web technology, in particular RDF and the associated triplestores, to describe and link …

Scientific software often presents very particular requirements regarding usability, which is
often completely overlooked in this setting. As computational science has emerged as its …