Electronic lab notebooks with Wordpress

Erick Martins Ratamero
Research Fellow

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What is Wordpress?

an online, open source website creation tool written in PHP

What we'd like from an Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN), according to Steve:

• Easy-to-use. Allow adding pictures and notes easily.
• Versioning (ability to check edits and audit changes)
• Backup and data security
• Ability to export and go elsewhere if required
• Free or low cost
• Integration with existing lab systems if possible
• Open software, future development
• Clarity over who owns the software, who owns the data, and where the information is stored
• Can be deployed for the entire lab

Most solutions stumble on steps 4, 5 and 7

Self-hosted wiki would solve almost everything - but it fails right out of the gate on step 1

Wordpress is not the only solution that works, but it works! (and if it's good enough for a third of the internet, it's probably good enough for us)

Introduction to Wordpress

Chapter 1: the dashboard