The LabTrove (http://www.labtrove.org) software (part of the Smart Research Framework software (http://mylabnotebook.ac.uk) used as an electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) and collaboration system will be described.  The way the software can facilitate collaboration across different scales e.g. between research student & supervisor, local or geographically dispersed research groups and in the limit global collaboration supporting open science projects will be illustrated and issues raised particularly by the openness of the later case highlighted and discussed.  The important issue of the use and usefulness of metadata in the classification of notebook entries will and the way this impacts of the re-use of data and information contained within the notebook system will be discussed and exemplified.

LabTrove: Software for facilitating open notebook science

244th National Meeting (2012)

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