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[[File:Twemoji 1f195.svg|left|140px]] '''Several new useful pieces have been added to the wiki''' in 2018, with more in the works. First, be sure to check out the webinar series ''A Guide for Management: Successfully Applying Laboratory Systems to Your Organization's Work'' by laboratory automation and computing professional Joe Liscouski. The [[LII:A Guide for Management: Successfully Applying Laboratory Systems to Your Organization's Work|seven-part webinar]] takes viewers on a journey of laboratory technologies and how they may or may not apply to the work you do. And of course a whole quiver of [[:Category:LIMSwiki journal articles (added in 2018)|journal articles]] have been added in 2018, touching on topics such as big data in healthcare and managing information across a wide variety of scientific contexts. What's coming in 2019? Look forward to updates to several key guides posted here, including more equipment and vendor information for the [[LII:Past, Present, and Future of Cannabis Laboratory Testing and Regulation in the United States|''Past, Present, and Future of Cannabis Laboratory Testing and Regulation in the United States'']] guide, and updated citations and statistics in our other popular guides. Happy wiking!
[[File:WLA icon news.svg|left|120px]] '''It's been a while. How about a few updates?''' First, today you'll notice a bit of a refresh of the front page. It was becoming increasingly obvious that for a wiki that's been around for well over a decade, finding something across the various namespaces (i.e., areas) still wasn't easy. A plethora of links were pasted across the front page, but that wasn't enough. This front page update is the first of several steps towards making knowledge and information a bit more findable on the wiki (there's always more that can be done). We now have a mini search portal for our four larger non-encyclopedic areas: guides and white papers, Q&A articles, journal articles, and books. This not only highlights these four areas more prominently but also gives users several ways to search and navigate the content in those areas. Second, a difficult decision was made to scale back vendor content. To the point prior about highlighting this wiki's encyclopedic and non-encyclopedic knowledge repository, it was time to move the vendors from the encyclopedic space to their own namespace, the ''Vendor:'' namespace. While vendor content is still highly useful to LIMSWiki users, its no longer as front-facing. Additionally, maintaining feature tables for each vendor was increasingly labor-intensive. As such, feature tables were removed, recognizing at the same time the onus remains fully on vendors to be more transparent about making public the full functionality of their offerings so potential buyers can make more informed decisions. Vendor records still retain their history, highlight offerings (i.e., LIMS, LIS, ELN, SDMS, and CDS), industries served, and other original information. [[User:Shawndouglas|Shawn Douglas]] ([[User talk:Shawndouglas|talk]]) 19:06, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
 
[[User:Shawndouglas|Shawn Douglas]] ([[User talk:Shawndouglas|talk]]) 14:49, 12 November 2018 (UTC)


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[[File:Continental Carbon Company (10429000336).jpg|left|130px]] '''Relatively new to the wiki but previously unannounced''' is what will eventually become part of a series on the various industries and settings a [[laboratory]] can be found: ''[[LII:The Laboratories of Our Lives: Labs, Labs Everywhere!|The Laboratories of Our Lives: Labs, Labs Everywhere!]]''. This guide may eventually change names and be integrated with more content. However, for now it acts as a solid introduction to the concept of how laboratories intersect our lives in ways we may not necessarily expect. The guide first sets a historical stage for the development of the laboratory, and it then offers a basic framework for looking at today's laboratories, whether by science, industry, or function. Then it provides a brief snapshot of 20 different sectors, listing lab examples, test types, equipment used, and how [[informatics]] may be applied in those laboratories, followed by a brief closing discussion. Hopefully the guide provides a more inspiring picture of how the laboratory intersects nearly every aspect of our lives.
[[File:Fig3 Liscouski SciStudGuideLabInfo23.png|left|180px]] '''Are you studying some sort of [[laboratory]]-based science in university?''' How well do your classes address [[laboratory informatics]] topics, particularly in the scope of industrial labs and how they operate outside of academia? If you find the discussion lacking, then his guide by industry veteran Joe Liscouski will be worth a look. In his guide ''[[LII:A Science Student's Guide to Laboratory Informatics|A Science Student's Guide to Laboratory Informatics]]'', Liscouski presents "an annotated map of the laboratory portion of a technological world, identifying critical points of interest and how they relate to one another, while making recommendations for the reader to learn more." Hope you find it useful! [[User:Shawndouglas|Shawn Douglas]] ([[User talk:Shawndouglas|talk]]) 18:48, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
 
[[User:Shawndouglas|Shawn Douglas]] ([[User talk:Shawndouglas|talk]]) 17:02, 4 December 2017 (UTC)


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Latest revision as of 19:06, 1 June 2024

June 1, 2024:

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It's been a while. How about a few updates? First, today you'll notice a bit of a refresh of the front page. It was becoming increasingly obvious that for a wiki that's been around for well over a decade, finding something across the various namespaces (i.e., areas) still wasn't easy. A plethora of links were pasted across the front page, but that wasn't enough. This front page update is the first of several steps towards making knowledge and information a bit more findable on the wiki (there's always more that can be done). We now have a mini search portal for our four larger non-encyclopedic areas: guides and white papers, Q&A articles, journal articles, and books. This not only highlights these four areas more prominently but also gives users several ways to search and navigate the content in those areas. Second, a difficult decision was made to scale back vendor content. To the point prior about highlighting this wiki's encyclopedic and non-encyclopedic knowledge repository, it was time to move the vendors from the encyclopedic space to their own namespace, the Vendor: namespace. While vendor content is still highly useful to LIMSWiki users, its no longer as front-facing. Additionally, maintaining feature tables for each vendor was increasingly labor-intensive. As such, feature tables were removed, recognizing at the same time the onus remains fully on vendors to be more transparent about making public the full functionality of their offerings so potential buyers can make more informed decisions. Vendor records still retain their history, highlight offerings (i.e., LIMS, LIS, ELN, SDMS, and CDS), industries served, and other original information. Shawn Douglas (talk) 19:06, 1 June 2024 (UTC)


November 20, 2023:

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Are you studying some sort of laboratory-based science in university? How well do your classes address laboratory informatics topics, particularly in the scope of industrial labs and how they operate outside of academia? If you find the discussion lacking, then his guide by industry veteran Joe Liscouski will be worth a look. In his guide A Science Student's Guide to Laboratory Informatics, Liscouski presents "an annotated map of the laboratory portion of a technological world, identifying critical points of interest and how they relate to one another, while making recommendations for the reader to learn more." Hope you find it useful! Shawn Douglas (talk) 18:48, 20 November 2023 (UTC)