Paper presented at the National Research Council Chemical Science's Roundtable Workshop on the Impact of Advances in Computing and Communications in Chemical Sciences and Technology
November 1-2, 1998, Washington, DC

For the past several years we have been involved in the development of remote and automated access to imaging instrumentation and the overall project is known as the World Wide Laboratory (WWL). This technical report summarizes our current research efforts and discusses some of the lessons learned during the implementation of this project.