Lab 2.0: The Smart Scientific Laboratory: What Does the Semantic Web have to Offer Laboratory Science?

摘要

Have you ever repeated an experiment because you can't find all the data or the conditions under which the data was collected? Are your laboratory notebooks as full and detailed as you would like? Do you find that the literature reports are lacking in the details needed to be sure about repeating an experiment? Have you ever had to digitize a graph or figure to extract the numeric data? If so you will realize why the smart digitally aware laboratory is at the heart of ensuring collaboration in science. We believe that the new social networking applications using the Web 2.0 technologies demonstrate the way in which the world wide web can produce yet another revolution in the way scientific investigations are carried out.