Category: Scientific Data Management
Data Standardization: Why is it so difficult?

In the last months several announcements have changed the fast-evolving concept of data standardization. Even though standardization isn’t a new concept at all yet the increase demand from the market for a tangible solution and recent changes have increased the focus, the attention and consequently the results. Allow us to […]
Seamless integration and interoperability for effective Lab Automation: Latest on SiLA

Paperless Lab Academy® recently sat with Daniel Juchli, CTO of Wega Informatiks and discussed the relevance of the recent SiLA2 release for the Lab Informatics users. Lab Automation – Which problems do you see laboratories facing every day? Currently, laboratories struggle with a lack of integration and communication between different […]
Introduction to the FAIR principles

[ Recorded Presentation] FAIR DATA, DATA Catalogs, and the foundations of AI artificial Intelligence At the Paperless Lab Academy 2019 held last spring at the Lake Maggiore, we discuss intensively the archival part of the eData life cycle. Automation of the laboratory processes is all about data management. The technology […]
[Press Release] LeapAnalysis to present world’s first-ever at the Paperless Lab Academy 2019

LeapAnalysis presents world’s first-ever search and analytics engine with semantic connectivity in Europe Access full press release LeapAnalysis (LA),(www.leapanalysis.com) a specialist for Big Data Solutions, will present the first-ever search and analytics engine with semantic connectivity in Europe at the Paperless Lab Academy, Baveno, Italy, April 10, 2019. The company […]
The 7th edition of the Paperless Lab Academy is ready to go

For Isabel Munoz and Roberto Castelnovo, owners of the consultancy firm NL42, the time of the year has come to start planning the next edition of Paperless Lab Academy, the number one European lab informatics event. The choice of the location has been an easy decision thanks to the positive […]
Food for thoughts from the PLA2018 interactive Panel Forum

The interactive panel forum, a new initiative launched by the 6th edition of the event, has allowed us to bring together a very interesting multidisciplinary poll of thought leaders coming from different markets. from left to right: Mark Newton – Principal at Heartland QA – retired Associate Sr Consultant QA […]
Empower your eData Life Cycle

The PLA2018 central theme will focus the discussions on how to empower your eData Life Cycle. In the new era of the internet of things and artificial intelligence, the majority of the laboratories have still a long way to go moving from paper based processes to paperless ones. At Paperless […]
First in series of post-event articles from Scientific Computing World

Robert Roe, deputy editor at Europa Science Ltd has recently published the first in series of articles covering the 5th edition of the PLA .”Predicting the future of the laboratory” develops the presentations of our keynote speakers from Northwest analytics on one hand and Gartner on the other hand.Louis Halvorsen, CTO […]
Lost knowledge and dead data
In the second of his reports from the Paperless Lab Academy 2015, Tom Wilkie considers old LIMS and dead data. Published online at Scientific Computing World, April 2015. One of the reasons that change is happening in the informatics industry now, is the pharmaceutical industry’s growing interest in data analytics. […]
Allotrope Foundation: How to drive innovation in Lab Informatics
Most of the current and future issues of data lab management are related to software systems that are unable to provide easily information to the right people at the right time, or/and due to the difficulties to align the data with data from other sources. In addition, the promising lab […]