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Graham Wright-5 |
Online booking systems for microsccopy facilities
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Hello,
I'm interested in upgrading our online booking
system and wondered what advice the listers could offer in this respect? Any
recommended systems, or ones to avoid?
It will be for a multi-user (all internal)
microscopy facility (7 confocals and image analysis computers), but may be
expanded to include a few EMs and possibly even seminar rooms, etc.
Thanks in advance for you help.
Graham
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Dr Graham Wright Microscopy & Imaging Facility Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory
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Michael Weber-4 |
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http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?S1=confocal Hi Graham, are you looking for a free or a commercial version? I am using phpscheduleit as a free version: http://www.php.brickhost.com/ It's not perfect, but does the job in a reliable and easy-to-use way. As a commercial program, the Scionics FaMAS might be of interest for you: http://www.scionics.de/famas Michael > Search the CONFOCAL archive at > http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?S1=confocal > > Hello, > I'm interested in upgrading our online booking system and wondered what > advice the listers could offer in this respect? Any recommended systems, > or ones to avoid? > It will be for a multi-user (all internal) microscopy facility (7 > confocals and image analysis computers), but may be expanded to include a > few EMs and possibly even seminar rooms, etc. > Thanks in advance for you help. > Graham > > ----- > Dr Graham Wright > Microscopy & Imaging Facility > > Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory > 1 Research Link > National University of Singapore > Singapore 117604 > > P: +65 6872 8406 > E: [hidden email] > W: www.bioinformatics.tll.org.sg/labs/microscopy/index.htm |
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Graham Wright-5 |
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http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?S1=confocal Sorry, forgot to mention that - I'll be interested in both free and commercial options. Thanks, Graham ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Weber" <[hidden email]> To: <[hidden email]> Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 6:41 PM Subject: Re: Online booking systems for microsccopy facilities > Search the CONFOCAL archive at > http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?S1=confocal > > Hi Graham, > > are you looking for a free or a commercial version? I am using > phpscheduleit as a free version: > > http://www.php.brickhost.com/ > > It's not perfect, but does the job in a reliable and easy-to-use way. > > As a commercial program, the Scionics FaMAS might be of interest for you: > > http://www.scionics.de/famas > > Michael > > >> Search the CONFOCAL archive at >> http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?S1=confocal >> >> Hello, >> I'm interested in upgrading our online booking system and wondered what >> advice the listers could offer in this respect? Any recommended systems, >> or ones to avoid? >> It will be for a multi-user (all internal) microscopy facility (7 >> confocals and image analysis computers), but may be expanded to include a >> few EMs and possibly even seminar rooms, etc. >> Thanks in advance for you help. >> Graham >> >> ----- >> Dr Graham Wright >> Microscopy & Imaging Facility >> >> Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory >> 1 Research Link >> National University of Singapore >> Singapore 117604 >> >> P: +65 6872 8406 >> E: [hidden email] >> W: www.bioinformatics.tll.org.sg/labs/microscopy/index.htm |
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Scott Howell-3 |
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http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?S1=confocal We use Yahoo calender and it works fine for our purposes. Scott J. Howell, Ph.D. Manager, Imaging Module Visual Sciences Research Center Case Western Reserve University 2085 Adelbert Rd. Institute of Pathology Room 106 Cleveland, Ohio 44106 216-368-2300 http://www.case.edu/med/vsrc/ ----- Original Message ----- From: Graham Wright <[hidden email]> Date: Monday, February 18, 2008 5:01 am Subject: Online booking systems for microsccopy facilities To: [hidden email] > Search the CONFOCAL archive at > http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?S1=confocal > > Hello, > I'm interested in upgrading our online booking system and wondered > what advice the listers could offer in this respect? Any > recommended systems, or ones to avoid? > It will be for a multi-user (all internal) microscopy facility (7 > confocals and image analysis computers), but may be expanded to > include a few EMs and possibly even seminar rooms, etc. > Thanks in advance for you help. > Graham > > ----- > Dr Graham Wright > Microscopy & Imaging Facility > > Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory > 1 Research Link > National University of Singapore > Singapore 117604 > > P: +65 6872 8406 > E: [hidden email] > W: www.bioinformatics.tll.org.sg/labs/microscopy/index.htm |
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Frohlich, Victoria Centonze |
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http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?S1=confocal We also use Yahoo calendars. We have one for each instrument in the facility. Access can be restricted to invitees only. In our facility these are the folks who have been trained to be independent users. These calendars work well for booking but the final monitor of usage is the server to which all our instruments are connected. The users use the same Yahoo ID and passwords to login at the instrument. Through this mechanism we know who logged in, which instrument they are using, when they login, which programs are being used, and when the log out. Our billing is based on what they actually use not was is on the booking calendar. This system has been in place for at least 6 years and it works. -----Original Message----- From: Confocal Microscopy List on behalf of Scott Howell Sent: Mon 2/18/2008 7:16 AM To: [hidden email] Subject: Re: Online booking systems for microsccopy facilities Search the CONFOCAL archive at http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?S1=confocal We use Yahoo calender and it works fine for our purposes. Scott J. Howell, Ph.D. Manager, Imaging Module Visual Sciences Research Center Case Western Reserve University 2085 Adelbert Rd. Institute of Pathology Room 106 Cleveland, Ohio 44106 216-368-2300 http://www.case.edu/med/vsrc/ ----- Original Message ----- From: Graham Wright <[hidden email]> Date: Monday, February 18, 2008 5:01 am Subject: Online booking systems for microsccopy facilities To: [hidden email] > Search the CONFOCAL archive at > http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?S1=confocal > > Hello, > I'm interested in upgrading our online booking system and wondered > what advice the listers could offer in this respect? Any > recommended systems, or ones to avoid? > It will be for a multi-user (all internal) microscopy facility (7 > confocals and image analysis computers), but may be expanded to > include a few EMs and possibly even seminar rooms, etc. > Thanks in advance for you help. > Graham > > ----- > Dr Graham Wright > Microscopy & Imaging Facility > > Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory > 1 Research Link > National University of Singapore > Singapore 117604 > > P: +65 6872 8406 > E: [hidden email] > W: www.bioinformatics.tll.org.sg/labs/microscopy/index.htm |
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Dale Callaham |
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http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?S1=confocal Hi Graham, I know that there are some packages specifically for this, but my facility has successfully used a wiki to handle this. Our "reservations" wiki is at: https://bcrc.bio.umass.edu/phpwiki/index.php/CentralMicroscopy I believe it is viewable by the public, but login is required to edit pages. I don't manage the server - it is hosted on a server in a different department, but I think wiki software is popular and well known to IT people who should be able to help you. I make it a policy to get out of as much unnecessary tasks as possilble....... It gives us a calendar, ability to see notes people may leave on the instrument status, etc. The wiki keeps a revision history - we have used this only a couple of times when people "replaced" an existing reservation. And it is very flexible. Cheers! Dale Callaham Umass Amherst Graham Wright wrote: > Search the CONFOCAL archive at > http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?S1=confocal > Hello, > I'm interested in upgrading our online booking system and wondered what > advice the listers could offer in this respect? Any recommended systems, > or ones to avoid? > It will be for a multi-user (all internal) microscopy facility (7 > confocals and image analysis computers), but may be expanded to include > a few EMs and possibly even seminar rooms, etc. > Thanks in advance for you help. > Graham > > ----- > Dr Graham Wright > Microscopy & Imaging Facility > > Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory > 1 Research Link > National University of Singapore > Singapore 117604 > > P: +65 6872 8406 > E: [hidden email] <mailto:[hidden email]> > W: www.bioinformatics.tll.org.sg/labs/microscopy/index.htm > <http://www.bioinformatics.tll.org.sg/labs/microscopy/index.htm> |
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We use a locally developed resource, On-Core Facility Scheduler
(OCF). It is open-source, and freely available from the Biocomputing
facility here at the University of Arizona. It does require Linux and
probably a few other things. It’s used extensively to schedule all
sorts of service labs here and at other universities. There are some very
nice administrative features to the software. If your instrument runs on
MS Windows, there’s even a bit of software that runs in Windows that will
report back to OCF server when a user has logged on/off, which helps with calculating
the monthly billing. It’s a nice bit of software, not perfect, but
pretty darn good. Examples: http://schedule.arl.arizona.edu/select_resource.php?v=1 Contacts for the software: http://bcf.arl.arizona.edu/contact-us/index.php Doug ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Douglas W. Cromey, M.S. - Assistant Scientific Investigator Dept. of Cell Biology & Anatomy, University of Arizona 1501 N. Campbell Ave, Tucson, AZ 85724-5044 USA office: AHSC
4212 email: [hidden email] voice: 520-626-2824
fax: 520-626-2097 http://swehsc.pharmacy.arizona.edu/exppath/ Home of: "Microscopy and Imaging Resources on the WWW" From: Confocal Microscopy
List [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Graham Wright Search the CONFOCAL archive at
http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?S1=confocal Hello, I'm
interested in upgrading our online booking system and wondered what advice the
listers could offer in this respect? Any recommended systems, or ones to avoid? It
will be for a multi-user (all internal) microscopy facility (7 confocals and
image analysis computers), but may be expanded to include a few EMs and
possibly even seminar rooms, etc. Thanks
in advance for you help. Graham ----- Temasek
Life Sciences Laboratory P:
+65 6872 8406 |
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Haberman, Ann |
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Hi Graham,
A number of facilities at Yale use ScheduleBook, which is a
commercial service.
http://schedulebook.com/index.shtml
It is easy to set up and modify the listed equipment and is not
expensive (yearly fee). A feature that I like is the ability to view
just one day at a time in a format that displays reservations as
blocks of time. That makes it quickly apparent when instruments might
be free. One disadvantage is that it does not allow for any data
export that would simplify any billing system that charges user
fees.
-Ann Haberman
Search the CONFOCAL archive at http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?S1=confocal Hello, I'm interested in upgrading our online booking system and wondered what advice the listers could offer in this respect? Any recommended systems, or ones to avoid? It will be for a multi-user (all internal) microscopy facility (7 confocals and image analysis computers), but may be expanded to include a few EMs and possibly even seminar rooms, etc. Thanks in advance for you help. Graham ----- Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory P: +65 6872 8406 -- Ann Haberman, PhD Department of Laboratory Medicine Yale University School of Medicine 1 Gilbert St. TAC S541 New Haven, CT 06510 203-785-7349 203-785-5415 (fax) [hidden email] |
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Anda Cornea |
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We are using Google calendars. They are free, allow the administrator to share with trained users only, and can manage several instruments at once, different color for each. Each user can see all instruments to which they have access and select the one that's free. It has worked quite well for us.
Anda Cornea Ph.D.
Head of the Imaging and Morphology Core Oregon National Primate Research Center Oregon Health & Science University (503) 690-5293 Search the CONFOCAL archive at http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?S1=confocal
Hello,
I'm interested in upgrading our online booking system and wondered what advice the listers could offer in this respect? Any recommended systems, or ones to avoid?
It will be for a multi-user (all internal) microscopy facility (7 confocals and image analysis computers), but may be expanded to include a few EMs and possibly even seminar rooms, etc.
Thanks in advance for you help.
Graham
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Dr Graham Wright Microscopy & Imaging Facility Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory
1 Research Link National University of Singapore Singapore 117604 |
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Nowell, Cameron |
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http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?S1=confocal Howdy All, We use a comercial program called Calweb (designed for booking meeting rooms). We charge per hour for our instruments. Calweb can export its data as an excel spreadsheet that we can then use to calculate our usage charges. Our old system used to be paper based and take 3 people all day to calculate our charges. It now takes one person abou 30 minutes to do it. Cheers Cam Cameron Nowell B. Sc (Hons) Microscopy Imaging and Research Core Facility Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre 7 St Andrews Place East Melbourne, Victoria 3002 AUSTRALIA Phone: +61396561242 Mobile: +61422882700 Fax: +61396561411 ________________________________ From: Confocal Microscopy List on behalf of Anda Cornea Sent: Tue 19/02/2008 3:43 AM To: [hidden email] Subject: Re: Online booking systems for microsccopy facilities Search the CONFOCAL archive at http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?S1=confocal We are using Google calendars. They are free, allow the administrator to share with trained users only, and can manage several instruments at once, different color for each. Each user can see all instruments to which they have access and select the one that's free. It has worked quite well for us. Anda Cornea Ph.D. Head of the Imaging and Morphology Core Oregon National Primate Research Center Oregon Health & Science University (503) 690-5293 >>> [hidden email] 2/18/2008 2:04 AM >>> Search the CONFOCAL archive at http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?S1=confocal Hello, I'm interested in upgrading our online booking system and wondered what advice the listers could offer in this respect? Any recommended systems, or ones to avoid? It will be for a multi-user (all internal) microscopy facility (7 confocals and image analysis computers), but may be expanded to include a few EMs and possibly even seminar rooms, etc. Thanks in advance for you help. Graham ----- Dr Graham Wright Microscopy & Imaging Facility Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory 1 Research Link National University of Singapore Singapore 117604 P: +65 6872 8406 E: [hidden email] W: www.bioinformatics.tll.org.sg/labs/microscopy/index.htm This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential and/or legally privileged information and is intended only to be read or used by the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee, any use, distribution, disclosure or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. Confidentiality and legal privilege attached to this email (including any attachments) are not waived or lost by reason of its mistaken delivery to you. If you have received this email in error, please delete it and notify us immediately by telephone or email. Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre provides no guarantee that this transmission is free of virus or that it has not been intercepted or altered and will not be liable for any delay in its receipt. |
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Mathieu Marchand-2 |
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http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?S1=confocal The PPMS facility management system is a web based software that could interest some of you. It is a collaboration between Institut Pasteur in Paris and the Rockefeller University in New York. It has been designed to specifically fit the needs of shared equipment core facilities. PPMS handles scheduling, incident management, invoicing, and collects usage statistics. Some features include : - per equipment scheduling parameters including usage quotas and user authorizations - multiple levels of authorization for booking and managing the equipment online - advanced cancellation policies - one click invoicing (currently using the booking times) - incident reporting and maintenance management - real-time equipment usage statistics - export statistics and invoices to Excel - training requests and training management (in development) - synchronization with a LDAP+Samba system for using login times in the invoicing and the statistics (in development) It is not open source but it is available free of charge for academics or non-profits institutions (an agreement needs to be signed). More details including screen shots are available at : http://www.pfid.org/html/ppms_agree?en Mathieu Marchand -- Bio-Imaging Resource Center, The Rockefeller University 1230 York Avenue, box 209, New York, NY 10021 http://www.rockefeller.edu/bioimaging . +1-212-327-7487 (7489 for fax) On Feb 18, 2008 5:04 AM, Graham Wright <[hidden email]> wrote: > Search the CONFOCAL archive at > http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?S1=confocal > > Hello, > I'm interested in upgrading our online booking system and wondered what > advice the listers could offer in this respect? Any recommended systems, or > ones to avoid? > It will be for a multi-user (all internal) microscopy facility (7 confocals > and image analysis computers), but may be expanded to include a few EMs and > possibly even seminar rooms, etc. > Thanks in advance for you help. > Graham > > ----- > Dr Graham Wright > Microscopy & Imaging Facility > > Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory > 1 Research Link > National University of Singapore > Singapore 117604 > > P: +65 6872 8406 > E: [hidden email] > W: www.bioinformatics.tll.org.sg/labs/microscopy/index.htm |
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Stephen Cody |
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We are currently using “iCal” by Brown Bear it is quite cheap. You can download one free fully functional calendar, or alternatively use their server for free as a limited trail.
We are probably going to upgrade to their other product “Calcium” soon for some extra login features. This more advanced product does not seem that much more expensive.
These products will run under a windows server, and you can generate booking statistics etc.
Stephen H. Cody Tip: Learn how to receive reminders about you microscope
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Hello, I'm interested in upgrading our online booking system and wondered what advice the listers could offer in this respect? Any recommended systems, or ones to avoid? It will be for a multi-user (all internal) microscopy facility (7 confocals and image analysis computers), but may be expanded to include a few EMs and possibly even seminar rooms, etc. Thanks in advance for you help. Graham
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