Understanding and defining the academic chemical laboratory’s requirements: Approach and scope of digitalization needed

Kanza, Samantha (2021) Understanding and defining the academic chemical laboratory’s requirements: Approach and scope of digitalization needed. In, Zupancic, Klemen, Pavlek, Tea and Erjavec, Jana (eds.) Digital Transformation of the Laboratory: A Practical Guide to the Connected Lab. Online. Wiley. (doi:10.1002/9783527825042.ch12).

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Abstract

When considering the requirements of a chemistry lab, it is important to remember that chemistry is a multifaceted discipline with many different sub domains, and the potential to be used in conjunction with other scientific disciplines in interdisciplinary research. This section will detail the different aspects of addressing the lab requirements: Including the contrasting types of chemistry lab, barriers to adoption of increased digitisation, the different stages of digitisation and the level of digitisation requirements at each stage. Approaches to digitising the lab will be covered in the next section.

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Published date: 11 June 2021

Additional Information: Dr Samantha Kanza is an Enterprise Fellow at the University of Southampton. She completed her MEng in Computer Science at the University of Southampton and then worked for BAE Systems Applied Intelligence for a year before returning to do an iPhD in Web Science (in Computer Science and Chemistry), which focused on Semantic Tagging of Scientific Documents and Electronic Lab Notebooks. She was awarded her PhD in April 2018. Samantha works in the interdisciplinary research area of applying computer science techniques to the scientific domain, specifically through the use of semantic web technologies and artificial intelligence. Her research includes looking at electronic lab notebooks and smart laboratories, to improve the digitization and knowledge management of the scientific record using semantic web technologies; and using IoT devices in the laboratory. She has also worked on a number of interdisciplinary Semantic Web projects in different domains, including agriculture, chemistry and the social sciences.

Keywords: digitisation, planning, laboratory, experiments, adoption barriers, scientific record, accessibility, attitude, compatability