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How Electronic Lab Notebooks can galvanise Research Data Management
Edinburgh University
Dealing with Data Conference
Rory Macneil
Research Space
26 August 2014
What we’re going to cover
• Research data management challenges
• Universities: a three pronged response
• The emergence of the institutional ELN for
universities
• How the institutional ELN can galvanise RDM
Traditional research workflow
And the data gets discarded/lost
Publish results
Document research
Collect data
The model under threat• Why? Data moving from afterthought to centre of value as
technology drives:– Generation of more data
– Better means of recording and sharing data
• Pressure from:– Funders demanding
• Data be made public
• Data be preserved
• More efficient and accountable research
– Researchers demanding
• Easier/cheaper access to publications
• Better attribution of credit
– Universities demanding
• Cost reductions
• Access to data to satisfy demands of funders
Three (un?)related initiatives
• Initial data capture with data storage facility
• Make data publicly available with data repository
• Preserve data with data archive
Archive
Storage
Repository
Three generations ofELNs
• 1990s – for Big pharma
• 2000s – for individual labs and researchers
• 2010s – for universities
2010sThe (Third generation)Revolution is coming
2011/12 Wisconsin pilot“We need an ELN that can be rolled out across the
university”It has to:
• Be easy to use• Be platform agnostic• Support intra- and inter-group collaboration• Have enterprise capabilities• Support data publishing and archiving
and . . .Still be affordable!!!!!!!!!”
Three constituencies
• Researchers– Utility and convenience of paper lab book + online capabilities – On multiple devices– File management /integration
• PIs– Controlled sharing– Collaboration– Group management– File management /integration
• IT, data librarians, research admin, commercialisation office– Enterprise features: Scalable deployment, Single Sign On– Multi-group support– IP protection– File management /integration– Archiving and repository integration