Eln Jisc Mrc 18dec07 Nsb

The document discusses the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology's (CEH) trial of using electronic lab notebooks. It describes CEH's large-scale, long-term monitoring networks that generate significant data. CEH scientists traditionally used paper lab notebooks that have issues like not being accessible, searchable, or easily archived. The trial involved volunteers maintaining parallel paper and wiki-based electronic notebooks to evaluate features. The wiki format provided many benefits over paper, though additional functionality is still needed to fully replace paper notebooks. CEH aims to select a permanent electronic notebook solution to improve data management.