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This is the case in some fields, particularly life sciences where it's very difficult to reproduce results, but in others it's not important at all. I have coll
by sleavey 6y ago
This is the case in some fields, particularly life sciences where it's very difficult to reproduce results, but in others it's not important at all. I have colleagues who have to have their labbook pages signed by the group leader each day, and others that can even take their labbooks with them when they leave their jobs because no one minds/cares.
- analog31 6y agoIndeed, and different fields operate under different regulatory / legal environments. When my parents were working as research scientists, they followed a rigid set of guidelines that were considered to be the gold standard at the time for use of notebooks in patent disputes. Labs in regulated environments such as medical or pharma research have their own rules today, and an industry of vendors who sell enterprise level software for managing data in a compliant fashion. I was working at a company on the day that US patent law was reconciled with the rest of the world, and the rules for priority changed. That was the last day we were required to keep a lab notebook. Today, I mainly keep records so I can figure out what I did later on, and the best single tool that works for me is Jupyter.