NOAA Research Hot Items!

To facilitate communication amongst the NOAA Research

offices Nancy Soreide and Eugene

Burger NOAA/OAR/PMELNOAATech2002

Oct 23-25, 2001, Silver Spring, MD

Internal web-based news pages

NOAA Research Hot Items! To facilitate communication

throughout NOAA Research Laboratories, Program Offices, Joint

Institutes

Hot Items! web site Internal communications page for NOAA Research

Stories are entered by authorized staff in each office Entered into a secure, internal web page Published immediately or at later date

Items appear automatically on Hot Items! As a headline Clickable to the full story

Everyone in NOAA Research can view Hot Items! web page

Archive Stories are archived after two weeks Archived stories are retrievable from a searchable database

Searchable by laboratory/program office name, date, keyword

Panel for laboratory, program office

Headlines are clickable to full story

Hot Items! Intranet website

Headline is clickable to full

story

Login to enter Hot Items!

Secured login to enter stories

User authentication User information

encrypted in database Session tracking to

authenticate administrative user actions

Secure Socket Layers (SSL) safeguards user’s network login/password

Forms for convenient story entry

Free form (right) Scientific publication Media contact Workshop,

conference, professional society meeting

Searchable story Archive Stories

Automatically moved to searchable archive after 2 weeks

Archive Search by

laboratory or program office, date, keyword

Story retrieved from Archive

Local hot items Owned by local laboratory or program office

Facilitates communication within local office Local configuration

Administration permissions User – can enter, edit publish, delete own stories Administrator – add users, edit, publish, delete any stories,

local configuration (e.g., story lifetime, logo, etc.) Director – Administrator functions and can push stories

Viewable within local office or as directed by local management

Hosted on Seattle Campus web server Operational July 2001

Local management can “push” items from local hot items to NOAA Research Hot Items!

Consolidates and replaces Outreach/Weekly Reporting requirements

Local laboratory and

program office hot items

Stories can be sent forward from the local hot items pages to NOAA Research Hot Items!

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NOAA Research Hot Items

Local hot items

Owned by local office

Headline clickable to full story

Searchable archive

local office name/logo

Stories can be pushed to NOAA Research Hot Items!

Local hot items

Push local story Requires

Director level login

Select story

Optional Edit

Publish on NOAA Research Hot Items!

Set publication date

Pushing a local story to NOAA Research Hot Items!

Story “pushed” onto NOAA Research Hot Items!

Database All entries stored in a MySQL database

Security Secure Socket Layers (SSL) ensures log in without compromising

user name and/or password Information encrypted before entry into the database Web pages secured to internal users or password protected

Server side technology Apache web server with PHP hypertext parser and scripting language Refresh and updates are automated Hosted on NOAA Seattle Campus NOC Web Server (24x7)

Client side Cascading style sheets, HTML, JavaScript

Technical overviewSee presentation by Eugene Burger at 1:00 in AUD