Stuart Chalk
University of North Florida, FL·Computer Science
Researchers create huge amounts of data, but much of it is poorly recorded, hard to find, and rarely shared or reused. Digital research notebooks, software that replaces the paper lab notebook, could help, but most do not fit the varied needs of different fields.
- Fields
Computer Science
Chemistry
- Topics
research data management
digital research notebook
electronic lab notebook
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Dec 2026
What they work on
- Develop core components of KnowLedger, an open digital research notebook that records data and notes, connects to online resources, and can be tailored to different scientific workflows.
- Set up GitHub repositories as community hubs where researchers can contribute data access and analysis modules, data templates with minimum metadata standards, and research workflows.
- Outline and demonstrate how an open, distributed ecosystem for research data management could be organized, so research communities can adopt and extend it.
More about the research
This project begins building KnowLedger, an open, free ecosystem for a digital research notebook. It aims to serve all research communities, with development largely in the community's hands.
Why it matters
An open, customizable digital notebook could help scientists in many fields record data more completely and attach standard descriptive information. That could make research data easier to share and reuse, and help disciplines build shared data-management tools instead of relying on closed commercial products.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Noah Daniels
University of Rhode Island, RI·Computer Science
Develop the MEDFORD language and parser as a human-readable layer that converts researchers' metadata into popular machine-readable metadata standards and FAIR databases.
David Elbert
Johns Hopkins University, MD·Materials Science
Coordinate data producers, users, repositories and publishers through the Materials Research Coordination Network (MaRCN) to make depositing materials data in trusted repositories the norm under FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable) principles.
Douglas Thain
University of Notre Dame, IN·Computer Science
Develop NBFlow, a toolkit that records notebook executions and converts them into workflows that schedule tasks concurrently on high performance clusters or clouds.
The school
University of North Florida: 1 labs on PI Pages, $19M a year on research, 27 research doctorates a year.
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