Hi all, there has been a lot of work in recent times by organisations
such as Kodak and CENSA - www.censa.org on the electronic lab notebook
issues as well as Glaxo. There is also a news report from 2005 -
http://www.redorbit.com/news/display/?id=226312&source=r_technology that
may be of interest. Having been involved with a number of digital
archiving projects over the years, and an ELNB one in particular - I
have to say - there still is not a definitive answer. CENSA seem to have
gone down the road of XML and PDF/A - and the VERS strategy -
http://www.prov.vic.gov.au/vers/digitalarchive/default.htm
Some of the problems we encountered including electronic signaturing,
version control, workflow (lab note books are signed by two parties
after verification of data), and then being able to bring back all the
information relating to a particular project - problems encountered here
included embedded objects and maintaining link integrity etc etc etc.
Keep it live, archive it to a separate server and so on. In trying to
make sense of it all I wrote a white paper on electronic archiving -
issue 19 of information overload avaiable from our web, plus issue 19.1
- which is a follow up.
Kind Regards
Lorraine
Lorraine Bradshaw AALIA
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From: The UK Records Management mailing list
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Maureen
Pennock
Sent: Wednesday, 16 August 2006 15:59
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Subject: Re: Backing-up of research / lab notebooks
Phil,
Chris Jones of GlaxoSmithKline gave a presentation on 'Laboratory
Notebooks - scanning challenges and successes' at the EAOLUG
Spring/Summer meeting back in May.
His presentation is available online as a PowerPoint file and can be
accessed from http://library.sanger.ac.uk/eaolug/past/060523/prog.htm
HTH,
Maureen.
Phil Astley wrote:
> Dear All
>
> One of our Colleges here is in the process of drawing up a business
> continuity plan. An issue that has cropped up is the abscence of any
> "back- up" procedure for research / lab notebooks which are kept by
> students in order to record the progress of research projects.
>
> If anyone out there would be kind enough to share their approach to
> this problem I'd be very grateful, in particular it would be good to
> know whether other institutions use "electronic notebooks"
>
> Cheers
> Phil Astley
> University of Aberdeen
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