Thursday, 11 September 2008

AHM08: Sharing and Collaboration

Jeremy Cohen: Sharing and Collaboration (in the laboratory) Blogs, Logs and Pods

Laboratory e-Notebook

leverage off things we already do
.. COSHH
.. Process todo vs plan vs record - all integrated diagramatically in PDA
.. Integration of lab records with building management system
. so that PDAs etc can subscribe to building message broker
. after all the building mgmt system knows such things as lab room temp
.. results can be made available WITH data in databases to provide remotely sources for validation
.. record the units
. eg bridge from Germany to Switzerland, didnt meet by 10cm, because elevations against diff sea levels, which differed by 5cm but the sign was got wrong

BioBlog .. http://chemtools.chem.soton.ac.uk/projects/blog/blogs.php/blog_id/15

bioblog templates essential

barcode to url convertion
or 2d-array barcode plus phone conversion to url and retrieval

http://simile.mit.edu/welkin .. Welkin is a graph-based RDF visualizer

discover that the use of blog actually improves the quality of what is recorded.

.. comment by sketch .. chemists are scriblers

also cf .http://wikispaces.com/, which is wiki based

finally still need to link all the component parts from publication to conversations to lab notebook.

LaBlog/wiki .. myExperiment vs ourExperiment.org

semantic web .. data deluge .. maintaining & communicating context
. major problem of communicating meaning
. eg ppt arrows on hebrew system which is a right to left language . which arrow is forward?
ie people and their backgrounds needed..

maybe call this 'semiotics of semantic web' or the 'semiotic web'?

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