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Keeping Track of Your Recipe: Moving from Cookbooks to the Web
Gone are the days of your grandmother’s written recipe on a dusty index card. The recipes of today are safe from spills by going electronic. By cooks going digital, they can now record and document their recipes in a safe environment while making them searchable and findable.Electronic laboratory notebooks (ELNs) help researchers to manage their research, record their processes, and manage research data in ways that increase reproducibility, efficiency, and collaboration. Whether an ELN or a paper notebook, the information that is provided needs to be a detailed and accurate representation of the research record. This recipe provides an outline for a workshop on the use of lab notebooks, the pros and cons of using ELNs versus written lab notebooks, as well as steps and examples to prepare activities
An Architectural Framework for Collaboration of Heterogeneous Communication Devices Using WAP and Mobile Device Augmented(MDA)Gateway Integration
Within the last couple of years, the challenge of displaying collaborative multimedia
information has become very important with the large diversity of communication devices
such as Personal Computers, laptops, notebooks and handheld devices. The shared data
and information may be presented with different views depending on the communication
device used by a particular collaborator. The use of various web tools (HTML, WML etc)
offers some solutions to the problem but if the target application requires more complex
features such as rich multimedia data than is manageable using HTML or WML format,
something else need to be done. In this paper, we propose a framework that integrates WAP
and MDA Gateway to support collaboration among virtual teams and nomadic workers
using heterogeneous communication devices. We then discuss an approach for augmenting
mobile device small screen capabilities with surrounding large screen display device
Engaging with books you cannot touch: interactive multimedia to explore library treasures
Interactivity has proved a successful way to engage visitors of science museums. However it is not a common
practice when the objects to exhibit are artefacts or, as in the case of this paper, books. A study was set up to
investigate the driving criteria for the “The Life and Work of William Butler Yeats” exhibition at the National
Library of Ireland and compare those with the visitors’ opinion. Books, notebooks and personal belongings of
the poet have been digitized and used to create a rich and varied exhibition that used both interactivity and
multimedia. The result of visitors’ survey showed that the variety was a key factor for the success of the
exhibition: different people engaged with different contents and different medium to different degrees. The
design of the ambience is critical: dim lights and the use of audio as a medium have to be carefully planned to
avoid annoying instead of engaging
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Using Provenance to support Good Laboratory Practice in Grid Environments
Conducting experiments and documenting results is daily business of
scientists. Good and traceable documentation enables other scientists to
confirm procedures and results for increased credibility. Documentation and
scientific conduct are regulated and termed as "good laboratory practice."
Laboratory notebooks are used to record each step in conducting an experiment
and processing data. Originally, these notebooks were paper based. Due to
computerised research systems, acquired data became more elaborate, thus
increasing the need for electronic notebooks with data storage, computational
features and reliable electronic documentation. As a new approach to this, a
scientific data management system (DataFinder) is enhanced with features for
traceable documentation. Provenance recording is used to meet requirements of
traceability, and this information can later be queried for further analysis.
DataFinder has further important features for scientific documentation: It
employs a heterogeneous and distributed data storage concept. This enables
access to different types of data storage systems (e. g. Grid data
infrastructure, file servers). In this chapter we describe a number of building
blocks that are available or close to finished development. These components
are intended for assembling an electronic laboratory notebook for use in Grid
environments, while retaining maximal flexibility on usage scenarios as well as
maximal compatibility overlap towards each other. Through the usage of such a
system, provenance can successfully be used to trace the scientific workflow of
preparation, execution, evaluation, interpretation and archiving of research
data. The reliability of research results increases and the research process
remains transparent to remote research partners.Comment: Book Chapter for "Data Provenance and Data Management for eScience,"
of Studies in Computational Intelligence series, Springer. 25 pages, 8
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