Category Archives: ELN Design

The speed of human progress

By Simon Coles | Published: February 22, 2010
Fascinating factoid from this post on Alertbox about the improvements in usabilty over the years: Human progress happens at 4% per year, averaged across many fields, ranging from 2% to 7% How interesting! I wonder what the state of play is for ELNs…. I suspect we’d like to think it’s something like 10% or 20%, but I [...]
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Presentation: Survey of the ELN Landscape

By Simon Coles | Published: January 27, 2010
Here’s my presentation on “Surveying the ELN Landscape” from the SMI ELN Conference in London today. Bullet points: Business drivers Comparing the different sectors and disciplines Build or buy? An overview of the solution space Patterns of success There’s a few concepts in here which deserve their own posts (presentations are so useful for stimulating the creative juices!) which hopefully I [...]
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“Chairman’s Opening Remarks” from SMI ELN Conference in London

By Simon Coles | Published: January 27, 2010
I’m chairing the first day of the SMI ELN Conference in London today. Which truth be told isn’t something I enjoy but hopefully I can add something. Anyway, you have to give a 10 minute presentation talking about wider industry issues and I thought it was appropriate to draw people’s attention to what’s happening in the [...]
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Brief thoughts on the future of scientific UIs

By Simon Coles | Published: December 22, 2009
I’m not a great fan of the term “ELN” despite the name of this blog, only because it means too many different things to many different people. As such it confuses things rather than aids communication. Having said that, whilst I believe we’ve done a really good job in PatentSafe replacing the corporate aspects (record keeping, [...]
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“Networked Laboratory Information”

By Simon Coles | Published: October 1, 2009
Over on Depth-First Rich Apodaca picks up on the problems with the “ELN” word and as a thought experiment makes a proposal for “Networked Laboratory Information” as being a starting point for thinking about Lab Informatics (as opposed to starting from something centred around the Lab Notebook): This discussion will start out with identifying the many forms [...]
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