Paper Info
Title
Adapting the electronic laboratory notebook for the semantic era
Abstract
The open source Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN) is a collaborative, distributed, web-based notebook system, designed to provide researchers with a means to record and share their primary research notes and data. As with most electronic notebook (EN) systems, the ELN was originally designed as a closed system with its own data repository and implicit semantics. The Scientific Annotation Middleware (SAM) project, a Department of Energy (DOE)-funded effort at Pacific Northwest and Oak Ridge National Laboratories, envisions a new model in which ENs are simply one application contributing to a much richer and semantically explicit record. Such a record would include, for example, data provenance, descriptive metadata, and annotations from a wide range of applications, problem solving environments, and agents. This paper reports the adaptation of the ELN client to use SAM and the development ofan initial set of SAM-based notebook services and semantic model, and then discusses the advantages of such an architecture in creating federated, human- and machine-interpretable, electronic research records.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1109/ISCST.2005.1553305
CTS
Keywords
Field
DocType
electronic research record,electronic laboratory notebook,sam-based notebook service,own data repository,data provenance,semantic era,web-based notebook system,eln client,new model,closed system,semantically explicit record,electronic notebook,internet,semantic model,system design,collaboration,data repository,resource description framework,displays,intellectual property,data management,middleware
Middleware,Metadata,World Wide Web,Annotation,Computer science,Information repository,Java,Semantics,Semantic data model,The Internet
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7695-2387-0
13
1.66
References 
Authors
5
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tara Talbott1192.49
Michael Peterson2131.66
Jens Schwidder3459.06
James Myers434956.21