From: Keith Taylor (keitht$##$mdli.com)
Date: Tue Sep 21 1999 - 10:32:10 EDT
There are many aspects to this question. The legal validity of an
electronic laboratory notebook has not been proven in court. Companies that
are working with electronic notebooks usually require a conventional
notebook to be kept as well. This doubles the effort of the scientist and
is not popular.
High throughput discovery is essentially a computer driven effort and
handwritten notebooks do not fit easily into workflow and this is
encouraging effort in electronic notebooks. A number of companies are
active in this area and MDL has produced most of the systems. I encourage
anyone interested in this technology to contact MDL (OK I work for them).
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From: owner-orglist$##$dq.fct.unl.pt [mailto:owner-orglist$##$dq.fct.unl.pt] On
Behalf Of Jacob Zabicky
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 4:04 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list orglist
Subject: Re: ORGLIST: Electronic lab notebooks
Hello Cindy,
Although everything can be destroyed, everybody in my group has to scribble
everything done during an experiment in her/his own serially numbered
hard-bound notebook of large format, with a set of strict rules of how to
correlate with external documents (spectra, photographs, etc.) and each
individual body of material. In long years we found that at the beginning
everybody pesters about the system but after a while, when materials and
documents accumulate, it becomes a blessing. If somebody wants to keep
electronic records, it's up to that person, but there's no dispensation for
the log books.
All the best,
Jacob
>Forwarded (from Cindy Becknell).
>Are there ORGLIST members using electronic lab notebooks
>instead of hardcopy notebooks ?
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>
>This is a question mainly for those who have researchers who keep lab
>notebooks, and perhaps our legal librarians. Are there any software
>products that are currently being used instead of hardcopy lab notebooks?
>I remember attending a presentation a couple of years ago at
>an SLA conference where they were developing such a software.
>Is anyone using a software like this? Are there any legal ramifications
>(e.g., would an electronic lab notebook stand up in court re: patent
>infringements, etc.)?
>
>Please respond to.
>
>Thanks,
>Cindy Becknell
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