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Re: audit trail or log of activities in Image J

Posted by ctrueden on May 19, 2011; 6:48pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/learning-order-without-sorting-tp3684521p3684523.html

Hi Jerry,

Apologies for the long delay in reply to your question.

I've looked, but haven't found a plugin to record all the steps taken while
> working on images in ImageJ (or FIJI) short of recording a macro of
> everything I'm doing.  Image Pro Plus has an audit trail that records
> activity while doing work in Image Pro Plus, and Photoshop has a History Log
> that records steps taken in that program and writes this to both a text file
> and the image's metadata.
>
> Is anyone aware of a similar logging feature for Image J?
>

Other than the macro recorder, I do not know of such a logging feature in
ImageJ1. However, the idea of an audit trail is of interest to quite a few
people. There is an ongoing discussion on the imagej-devel list about it:

http://imagejdev.org/pipermail/imagej-devel/2011-May/000384.html

Some developers at the Institut fuer Informatik, Martin-Luther-Universitaet
Halle-Wittenberg are working on tools called Alida & Mitobo which integrates
with ImageJ and tracks data provenance (i.e., the operations performed on
your data).

We are hoping to provide better tools for audit trails in ImageJ2, which is
under active development.

Regards,
Curtis

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 9:10 PM, Jerry (Gerald) Sedgewick <
[hidden email]> wrote:

> I've looked, but haven't found a plugin to record all the steps taken while
> working on images in ImageJ (or FIJI) short of recording a macro of
> everything I'm doing.  Image Pro Plus has an audit trail that records
> activity while doing work in Image Pro Plus, and Photoshop has a History Log
> that records steps taken in that program and writes this to both a text file
> and the image's metadata.
>
> Is anyone aware of a similar logging feature for Image J?
>
> Jerry
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