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Head in the clouds: Re-imagining the experimental laboratory record for the web-based networked world

Overview of attention for article published in Automated Experimentation, October 2009
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (88th percentile)

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Title
Head in the clouds: Re-imagining the experimental laboratory record for the web-based networked world
Published in
Automated Experimentation, October 2009
DOI 10.1186/1759-4499-1-3
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Authors

Cameron Neylon

Abstract

The means we use to record the process of carrying out research remains tied to the concept of a paginated paper notebook despite the advances over the past decade in web based communication and publication tools. The development of these tools offers an opportunity to re-imagine what the laboratory record would look like if it were re-built in a web-native form. In this paper I describe a distributed approach to the laboratory record based which uses the most appropriate tool available to house and publish each specific object created during the research process, whether they be a physical sample, a digital data object, or the record of how one was created from another. I propose that the web-native laboratory record would act as a feed of relationships between these items. This approach can be seen as complementary to, rather than competitive with, integrative approaches that aim to aggregate relevant objects together to describe knowledge. The potential for the recent announcement of the Google Wave protocol to have a significant impact on realizing this vision is discussed along with the issues of security and provenance that are raised by such an approach.

Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 8 15%
United Kingdom 7 13%
Indonesia 1 2%
France 1 2%
Netherlands 1 2%
Germany 1 2%
Sweden 1 2%
Iceland 1 2%
Canada 1 2%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 33 60%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 22 40%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 13%
Professor > Associate Professor 5 9%
Student > Bachelor 4 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 5%
Other 10 18%
Unknown 4 7%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Computer Science 19 35%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 15 27%
Chemistry 4 7%
Social Sciences 2 4%
Arts and Humanities 2 4%
Other 8 15%
Unknown 5 9%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 18 November 2014.
All research outputs
#3,307,650
of 25,374,917 outputs
Outputs from Automated Experimentation
#2
of 6 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#11,927
of 107,985 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Automated Experimentation
#1
of 4 outputs
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