Category Archives: Preservation

What gets kept in Informatics Systems, and where?

By Simon Coles | Published: May 30, 2009
This entry is part of a series, ELNs and the Credit Crunch» Not all of the “Stuff” sloshing around the lab is the same, and distinguishing between them helps tease out the best place to store things. We use a simple Triangle Diagram (originally proposed by John Trigg of PhaseFour which really just tries to [...]
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The problems of “standards”

By Simon Coles | Published: May 28, 2009
This is a good post showing the problems of “Standards” and how they aren’t necessarily a guarantee of any kind of interoperability. Standards can not force a vendor to be interoperable. If a vendor wishes deliberately to withhold interoperability from the market, then they will always be able to do so, and, in most cases, [...]
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The PatentSafe Repository Checker

By Simon Coles | Published: May 28, 2009
We’ve updated the PatentSafe Repository Checker script, and importantly released it under an Open Source license (the GPL) which means anyone can check the integrity of a PatentSafe repository. The project is on GitHub – here’s the project’s GitHub page. The checker script is a completely separate implementation of the signature and repository code, and [...]
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Google has cool book scanning technology

By Simon Coles | Published: May 3, 2009
Seems Google have some really nifty technology for scanning books automatically without destroying them. Some of our clients have scans of their Paper Notebooks, and you can put them into PatentSafe quite easily. However, most people are put off by the expense of scanning (& tagging), which is a real pity. Given the amount of [...]
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ChemWriter & Web-based Chemistry ELNs

By Simon Coles | Published: February 20, 2009
The “Chemistry-centric” front end bit of the ELN problem isn’t really our gig – although we’re happy to play our part in enabling the deployment of such products to Chemists whilst we keep everyone else in the organisation happy. So we see a lot of Chemistry ELNs but we don’t really have much interest in [...]
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