ELOGSummary from Vendor: ELOG is part of a family of applications known as weblogs. Their general purpose is to make it easy for people to put information online in a chronological fashion, in the form of short, time-stamped text messages ("entries") with optional HTML markup for presentation, and optional file attachments (images, archives, etc.) and to make it easy for other people to access this information through a Web interface, browse entries, search, download files, and optionally add, update, delete or comment on entries.

Compare ELOG to other options in the Electronic Lab Notebook Matrix.

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Features & Specifications

  • Interactivity

    Interface functionality

    Search functions can search across file formats and beyond typos

    • Able to search for documents within the platform
    • Able to search beyond file formats
    • Low ability to search beyond typographical errors
    • Transparency of file structure

     

    Ability to manipulate files and images

    • Can manipulate text documents and spreadsheets, can manipulate some elements of images, cannot manipulate other datasets

     

    Support for multiple open windows

    • Yes

     

    Ability to link out

    • Yes

  • Support for Researcher Documentation

    Documentation and metadata creation

    Hyperlink Support

    • Yes

     

    Metadata Creation Prompts

    • Yes

     

    Rights Management (Licensing)

    • Not applicable (the tool is open source)

     

    Protocol Integration

    • Yes

  • Adaptability to Lab Workflows

    Platform compatibility

    Accounts/Permissions Levels

    • Yes

     

    Internal Data Sharing

    • Yes

     

    Adaptable to a Variety of Workflows

    • No information provided

     

    Compatibility with authoring tools

    • No

     

    Windows Compatible    

    • Yes

     

    Macintosh Compatible

    • Yes

     

    Linux Compatible

    • Yes

     

    Android Compatible    

    • Yes

     

    iOS Compatible    

    • Yes

  • Storage

    Available data storage options

    Cloud Storage    

    • Yes

     

    Local Storage    

    • Yes

     

    Hybrid (cloud/local) Storage

    • No

     

    Versioning

    • None

     

    File Redundancy

    • No information provided

     

    Creates stable URLs or persistent identifiers for entries

    • Yes

     

    Can unregistered users access the data found at persistent links?

    • No
       

    Storage Capacity - Users

    • Depends on the user's local storage

     

    Storage Capacity - Max File Size

    • Can be configured in the ELOG server. Typically, 10-20 MB

  • Hosting

    Software access

    Cloud

    • No

     

    Local

    • Yes

     

    Hybrid (combination of cloud and local)    

    • No

  • Support

    Training and maintenance offered

    Training

    • None

     

    Documentation    

    • FAQs, support forum, instructions, "quick-start" instructions

     

    Data Migration from Other Systems (incoming migration)

    • Yes

     

    Compatability with data repositories

    • Yes. Data can be exported in CSV, XML, and plain text

     

    Exit Strategies (outgoing migration)

    • A whole logbook can be exported in various formats.

     

    Recovery Options

    • Recovery options rely on the underlying file system.

     

    Single Sign-on (Institutional ID)

    • Somewhat

     

    Number of Installations per institution

    • No limit; several parallel servers can be used at once.

     

    Multiple client use

    • Yes

     

    Number of registered Harvard/HMS users

    • No information provided

     

    Other higher-education users

    • No information provided

  • Security

    Compliance with Harvard security

    Harvard Security Levels

    • No information provided on Harvard Security Levels

     

    Backdoor accessibility

    • Yes

  • Other

    Additional features

    Open Science/Open Data Efforts

    • ELOG itself is open source

     

    Academically Oriented

    • Yes

     

    Cost (per seat)    

    • None

     

    Dictation/voice input

    • No

     

    Data Entry

    • Supports the importation of CSV files.
    • Attachments can be uploaded directly from your computer.
    • Data can be exported in CSV, XML, and plain text formats.

     

    Platform Integrations

    • Not applicable

  • Tiers of Service

    Features and costs associated

    Not applicable

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