Protecting and sharing of semantically-enabled, user-orientated electronic laboratory notebook focusing on a case study in the e-science domain

We discuss the addition to an existing Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN) system, a means to permit the sharing of modelling data. One advantage is that sharing of such data is a means of assisting the publication process. This is done by presenting the modelling data and the reasoning behind its creation. This sharing of data is managed in a user sensitive fashion by restricting the release of data based upon the role someone performs. Further sensitivity is shown by fine-grained access control, which permits only part of the ELN to be shown. The performance of the solution presented is reviewed via quantitative analysis that showed a reasonable degree of end-user acceptance of the proposed approach.