  Reflectance spectrometry is a fast and reliable method for the
characterisation of human skin if the spectra are analysed with respect to a
physical model describing the optical properties of human skin. For a field
study performed at the Institute of Legal Medicine and the Freiburg Materials
Research Center of the University of Freiburg an electronic laboratory notebook
has been developed, which assists in the recording, management, and analysis of
reflectance spectra. The core of the electronic laboratory notebook is a MySQL
database. It is filled with primary data via a web interface programmed in
Java, which also enables the user to browse the database and access the results
of data analysis. These are carried out by Matlab, Tcl and
  Python scripts, which retrieve the primary data from the electronic
laboratory notebook, perform the analysis, and store the results in the
database for further usage.
