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Core facilities have particular data management concerns; backup and archiving of the data which their users gather using their equipment. Catalyzer's ability to extract settings, thumbnails and other information from different data formats makes it an ideal component for improving the record keeping in a facility. Some core facilities would like to gather a minimum of information about each experiment done; for this the Required Fields feature of catalyzer is ideal, so you can ensure you gather all the information.
In this context, the users of the facility would create a catalog for each experiment they ran on the facility, with the minimal annotation filled in. These catalogs could be saved on a network server, and the facility could build up an annotated archive of all data generated. By using the Publish facility, it would be possible to browse all the data using standard web browser (perhaps over the internal network not the internet).
Keeping records using Catalyzer would be a step towards Good Laboratory Practice compliance, which is becoming more important for many research institutions.