Electronic lab notebooks: can they replace paper?
Electronic lab notebooks: can they replace paper?
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DOI：
10.1186/s13321-017-0221-3
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发表时间：
2017-05-24
影响因子：
8.6
通讯作者：
Kovač K
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作者：
Kanza S;Willoughby C;Gibbins N;Whitby R;Frey JG;Erjavec J;Zupančič K;Hren M;Kovač K
尽管社会的数字化程度越来越高，但仍有一些研究领域仍然牢牢扎根于过去;在这种情况下，实验室笔记本，实验中最后剩下的纸张组成部分。无数的电子实验室笔记本（ELN）已经被创建，试图在实验室中数字化记录保存过程，但由于在以前的研究中发现的许多采用障碍，并在这里提出的用户研究中进一步探讨，它们都没有成为ELN市场的“关键球员”。所确定的主要问题是当前可用ELN的成本，其易用性（或缺乏易用性）以及跨不同设备和操作系统的可访问性问题。有证据表明，虽然科学家愿意使用通用的笔记本软件，电子表格和其他一般办公室和科学工具来帮助他们的工作，但目前的ELN缺乏满足研究人员需求的必要功能。在本文中，我们提出了我们广泛的研究和用户研究结果，提出了一个ELN建立在一个预先存在的云笔记本平台，利用可访问的流行的科学软件和语义Web技术，以帮助克服所确定的障碍，采用。本文的在线版本（doi：10.1186/s13321-017-0221-3）包含补充材料，可供授权用户使用。
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 paper component of an experiment. Countless electronic laboratory notebooks (ELNs) have been created in an attempt to digitise record keeping processes in the lab, but none of them have become a ‘key player’ in the ELN market, due to the many adoption barriers that have been identified in previous research and further explored in the user studies presented here. The main issues identified are the cost of the current available ELNs, their ease of use (or lack of it) and their accessibility issues across different devices and operating systems. Evidence suggests that whilst scientists willingly make use of generic notebooking software, spreadsheets and other general office and scientific tools to aid their work, current ELNs are lacking in the required functionality to meet the needs of the researchers. In this paper we present our extensive research and user study results to propose an ELN built upon a pre-existing cloud notebook platform that makes use of accessible popular scientific software and semantic web technologies to help overcome the identified barriers to adoption. The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13321-017-0221-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.