Impact of Advances in Computing and Communications Technologies on Chemical Science and Technology Report of a Workshop (1999) / Chapter Skim
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Session 3 Panel Discussion
Session 3 Panel Discussion
Pages 171-177
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One approach is to require the makers of the notebook or document management system to provide a certain degree of compatibility with future formats, and future versions of their product. This kind of requirement is coming out of some of the commercial electronic notebook efforts.
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There's also an issue of progressive conversions, for keeping file formats up to date as time passes. That brings in issues of fidelity if we convert files, how can we assure ourselves that the converted objects are still correct?
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My feeling is that between the stock market and the bank accounts in the world, most people have fairly significant concerns about their resources, and concern about some of these scientific lab notebooks probably pales in comparison to the amount of concern people would have with problems with those financial resources. I don't think people walk into their banks and ask for proof that their bank accounts are being properly archived, and their dividends and stock certificates are properly recorded.
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In the United States, the date of invention is often established using laboratory notebooks. The primary requirement is that the pages be dated, signed, and witnessed.
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One of the things that you at Illinois and at Kodak are doing is making very sophisticated tools and very sophisticated methodologies accessible to knowledgeable but maybe not expert users. So, a risk is that the knowledgeable user will abuse the capability unknowingly.
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We also require training before anybody can use the instruments and offer training classes on how to interpret the data, usually once a year. While the training helps meet some of that need, I think the solution still is having an expert available and approachable.
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They live on the Web and they don't trust any of it. Clint Potter: I guess an issue is people using software now that they would never have been able to use before because it wasn't on the PC, and that they know about these mistakes and have learned about these mistakes, so maybe it is just an education issue.
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