Biomedical Engineering Reference
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25.4.4
Solubility Modeling and Visualization 437
25.4.5
ChemTaverna and MyExperiment 437
25.5
Open Notebook Science in Undergraduate Physics Laboratory Hosted on
OpenWetWare 438
25.5.1
Overview 438
25.5.2
Description of How Students and Instructor Carry Out ONS 438
25.5.2.1
Preparation and Safety 438
25.5.2.2
Primary Work (Equipment Setup, Data Acquisition, Data
Analysis) 439
25.5.2.3
Equipment Setup 439
25.5.2.4
Data Acquisition 439
25.5.2.5
Data Analysis 440
25.5.2.6
Informal Lab Summary 440
25.5.2.7
Instructor Feedback 441
25.5.2.8
Formal Report 441
25.5.3
Outcomes (Anecdotal) 441
25.5.4
Future Work and How to Replicate 442
25.6
Laboratory Blogging: Framework for Small - Scale Collaboration 443
25.6.1
One - to - One Collaborations 443
25.6.2
Failures 443
25.6.3
Scaling the Collaboration 444
25.7
Conclusion 445
References 446
25.1
INTRODUCTION
Technology has a profound effect on how scientists can communicate with
each other. This affects how quickly science can progress and what kinds of
collaboration are possible. Although the printing press and the subsequent
establishment of scientifi c journals dramatically increased the ability of
researchers to disseminate their results and ideas, close collaborations between
geographically separated individuals had to await the availability of telecom-
munication technologies, particularly the development of the Internet.
Today, the ubiquity of sophisticated and easy-to-use tools to exchange infor-
mation is enabling the creation of a “shared presence” between people, regard-
less of their geographical location. Researchers can share not only their data
but also details regarding how they processed their data, their interpretation
of their results, and their future plans. However, the
ability
to share only trans-
lates into actual sharing if there is a motivation to do so. In this chapter we
will provide examples of what is possible when researchers choose to share
their experimental work in progress. The chapter presents a chronological
timeline of some key events in the history of these examples.
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