NOAA Research Hot Items!

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NOAA Research Hot Items!
Internal web-based news pages

• To facilitate communication amongst the NOAA
  Research offices

Nancy Soreide and Eugene Burger
NOAA/OAR/PMEL NOAATech2002 Oct 23-25, 2001,
Silver Spring, MD
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NOAA Research Hot Items!

• To facilitate communication throughout NOAA
  Research
• Laboratories, Program Offices, Joint Institutes

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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

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Hot Items! Intranet website

• Panel for laboratory, program office
• Headlines are clickable to full story

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Headline is clickable to full story
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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 users
  network login/password

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• Forms for convenient story entry
• Free form (right)
• Scientific publication
• Media contact
• Workshop, conference, professional society
  meeting

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Searchable story Archive

• Stories
• Automatically moved to searchable archive after 2
  weeks
• Archive
• Search by laboratory or program office, date,
  keyword

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Story retrieved from Archive
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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

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Local hot items
Stories can be sent forward from the local hot
items pages to NOAA Research Hot Items!
Local laboratory and program office hot items
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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!

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Push local story
Pushing a local story to NOAA Research Hot Items!

• Requires Director level login
• Select story
• Optional Edit
• Publish on NOAA Research Hot Items!
• Set publication date

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• Story pushed onto NOAA Research Hot Items!

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Technical overview
See presentation by Eugene Burger at 100 in AUD

• 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