LIMS Stage Gating
Definition
A laboratory information management system function that prevents an examiner from advancing to the next examination stage until the current stage is documented and locked; the technical implementation mechanism for linear ACE-V and sequential unmasking in operational fingerprint laboratories.
Related terms
- Blind Verification
- The procedure in which a second fingerprint examiner independently performs the Analysis and Comparison stages without knowledge of the first examiner's conclusion....
- Confirmation Bias
- The cognitive tendency to search for, interpret, favour, and recall information in a way that confirms or supports one's prior beliefs or...
- Contextual Bias
- The influence of case-relevant background information (suspect financial difficulties, police intelligence) on the direction of an examiner's technical analysis. Demonstrated experimentally for...
- Evaluative Reporting
- A framework for expressing forensic conclusions in terms of the probability of the evidence given the prosecution hypothesis versus the defence hypothesis...
- Linear ACE-V
- An implementation of ACE-V methodology that enforces strict sequential documentation: analysis of the latent mark must be completed and recorded before the...
- Mayfield Error
- The 2004 FBI misidentification of Brandon Mayfield as a contributor to a latent print from the Madrid train bombing, attributed by the...
- Sequential Unmasking
- An information-sequencing protocol in which the examiner receives the questioned material first, completes and documents the analysis before receiving the known standards,...
- SWGFAST
- Scientific Working Group for Friction Ridge Analysis, Study and Technology; the predecessor body to the OSAC Friction Ridge Subcommittee; produced documentation standards...
- Within-Expert Contradiction
- The finding, documented by Dror and Charlton (2006), that the same examiner can reach contradictory conclusions about the same mark-exemplar pair across...
Explained in
- Dror 2006 Cognitive Bias and the Bias-Mitigation ToolkitA laboratory information management system function that prevents an examiner from advancing to the next examination stage until the current stage is documente...