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A Collaborative Electronic Laboratory Notebook

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A Collaborative Electronic Laboratory Notebook
We have developed a secure, collaborative, web-based electronic notebook (EN) designed to provide researchers and students with a means to record and share their primary research notes and data. The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN) supports a variety of common multimedia formats and can easily be extended to allow entry and display of custom data types. Based on a combination of Java, JavaScript, and Perl, the ELN provides a hierarchical chapter/page structure for organizing entries and includes features such as search, automated email notification of new entries, and a programmatic interface for automated data submission. The most recent version also includes public-key authentication and digital signatures. The ELN is being used in a variety of scientific research projects at PNNL and is publicly available from our website. Experience at our laboratory and a variety of collaborating institutions suggests that the unique capabilities o...
James D. Myers, Elena S. Mendoza, B. Hoopes
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Type Conference
Year 2001
Where IMSA
Authors James D. Myers, Elena S. Mendoza, B. Hoopes
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