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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.
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!
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!