Written by Isabel Fasciano What is the difference between Microsoft SharePoint and an Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN)? While both are designed to store and share data, thus fostering business communication and collaboration, an ELN has the added advantage of being uniquely designed to satisfy the needs of the scientific community’s workflows, information viewing, and built-in compliance […]
What happens when researchers identify the same information by different terms? “We advocate that vocabulary standards become an intrinsic element within industry softwareConsider the difficulties created in later finding or sharing existing research, whether internally through staff turnover or externally among an increasingly collaborative scientific community, when information is not recorded or tagged with uniform […]
