Electronic field notebooks: useful, or pain in the posterior? [Highly Allochthonous]
scienceblogs.com wrote an interesting post today on
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The UJ mapping class this year were piloting electronic field notebooks, with each group being given a PDA in which they could enter a locality, a description, and any structural data they were measuring. Especially with the structual data, this may seem like a useful innovation which saves hours of tedious data entry when you’re back home. Still, I remain to be convinced that using an electronic notebook is automatically a good thing; the batteries don’t run out when you’re using pen and paper
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