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⚠️🚨NEW CHAPTER ALERT!🚨⚠️ 

A new sub-chapter on Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELNs) is now live!

Check out the chapter here: https://the-turing-way.netlify.app/reproducible-research/rdm/rdm-elns

This sub-chapter originated with a section that Richard Acton wrote for members of the @HDBI research consortium: https://data-guide.hdbi.org/04-working-with-data.html#sec-elns

This became the starting point for a chapter on ELNs for The Turing Way: worked on during #BookDashNov23 and merged live at our #CollabCafe in February 2024.

Electronic Lab Notebooks — The Turing Way

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The Turing Way Project Mar 12, 2024

⚡ It covers the...

- Pros and cons of ELNs compared to paper notebooks
- Common problems when adopting ELNs
- Considerations of lock-in and how to avoid / minimise it
- Archival function of lab notebooks and what ELNs mean for this
- Potential for automations and integrations
- Links to resources to aid in selecting an ELN
- Some open-source ELN picks and a discussion of using tools not intended as specialist ELNs as ELNs.

... and a call for open-standards development efforts!

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The Turing Way Project Mar 12, 2024

Many of the revisions and conversations about this chapter were discussed in this pull request: https://github.com/the-turing-way/the-turing-way/pull/3466

The final result is much improved over the initial drafts thanks to excellent feedback from Esther Plomp @toothFAIRy and Danny Garside @da5nsy among others.

What are your experiences with ELNs? Do you have a case-study of ELN adoption that we could add to the chapter? What do you imagine an open standard for ELNs might look like?

Join us in expanding this chapter!

[READY FOR REVIEW] Electronic Lab Notebooks Chapter by RichardJActon · Pull Request #3466 · the-turing-way/the-turing-way

Summary Electronic lab notebooks are currently addressed in a chapter in research data management on methods. It is also mentioned in a chapter in open research on open notebooks. ELNs are an impor...

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