Digital Lab Notebook

Overview

The IBG Digital Lab Notebook is a collaborative project with the Field Museum creating a web based record keeping and project management utility for multi-user PCR experiments. The web page layout has been created with Struts and CSS. The database has been setup using MySQL. If you are interested in working on this project or if there are questions you have that are not answered on this wiki page please contact David_Angulo.

Documentation

Use cases, outlining the functionality of the DLN pages can be downloaded here.

All class and method definitions can be found in the JavaDocs.

The structure of the MySQL database is outlined in this excel file.

The final designs for all DLN pages can be viewed here.

Additional information regarding the project (UML example, data flow, and design pattern) is collected in a document you can download here.

Files

All Struts development files for the project can be found in subversion here .

The MySql^? tables can be recreated from this MySqlDump^? here

The original DLN project was coded in VB and can be downloaded here .

Application

To look at the current state of the application use this link DLN Login.

A test login has been created:

Username: ibgdemo

Password: welcome

Collaborators

• Bryan Beaumont [Depaul University]
• David Angulo [Depaul University]
• Rick Ree [Field Museum]
• Shannon Hackett [Field Museum]

To Do

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Reading List

The below list is a resource of information people from the development team have found useful:

• The Complete Reference Struts, Second Edition