The document discusses a study on user perspectives of metadata use in electronic laboratory notebooks. It provides details on the anatomy of experiments, traditional recording methods, and how LabTrove allows for automatic capture and user-defined metadata. The study analyzed the number and types of metadata sections and key-value pairs used by participants. It also examined public versus private use and included user interviews and studies to understand perspectives on metadata. The conclusion is that metadata is essential for intelligent open access to research data and results.

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User Perspectives of Metadata Use
in Electronic Laboratory Notebooks
Cerys Willoughby, Jeremy Frey,
Emma Tonkin, Simon Coles,
and Colin Bird
LastName, Title

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Why do we care about metadata?

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Anatomy of an experiment
• Plan experiment
• Enact experiment
• Analyse results

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Traditional recording

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LabTrove
and
Automatic
capture of
metadata
Flexibility has
limitations..

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LabTrove and
User defined
metadata

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What metadata might we expect?

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Metadata Survey

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Number of ‘sections’

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Values for section:
• Types of subject: • Top ten subjects:
– Experiment related – Materials
– Project related – Methods
– Blog related – Data
– Experiments
– Experiment stage
– References
– Samples
– Instruments
– Safety
– Results

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Number of ‘Key value’ pairs

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Values for Keys:
• Types of subject: • Top ten subjects:
– Experiment related – Materials
– Project related – Instruments
– Blog related – Methods
– the post type – Post type
– the location of an instrument – Data
or experiment – Experiments
– a reference to a physical lab – Samples
notebook (Ref/code) – References
– the date of the experiment – Location
– the status of an activity or – Ref/code
document

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LastName, Title

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Number of Authors?

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Public vs private?

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User perspectives on metadata
• User interviews
• User studies

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What can we do about it?

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Metadata is essential for
intelligent open access