All data exists within a context: the human or machine that generated the data; the processes that were enacted; and the environments in which it occurred. The capture and dissemination of the context of data is of vital importance affording the data new potential for creating fresh value.  In contrast to the top-down software development approaches, where the structure and semantics of the data are informed by the implementation of the software applications that manage the data, the Smart Research Frameworks (SRF) project software suite of data-agnostic software applications and frameworks when used in conjunction with a novel scientific methodology, which focuses on the explicit description of scientific intent and action, facilitates the automated and semi-automated capture and dissemination of richly structure data in context. By providing an appropriate query mechanism (SPARQL endpoint) the laboratory notebooks collectively effectively form a super database of raw and analysed data.

Publication@Source: The Lab as a database

243rd National Meeting (2012)

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