Transcript NOAA Research Hot Items! Web-based internal news pages NOAA/OAR/PMEL

NOAA Research Hot Items!
Web-based internal news pages
Nancy Soreide and Eugene Burger
NOAA/OAR/PMEL
American Meteorological Society / IIPS
January 13-17, 2002, Orlando, FL
Hot Items Technical implementation is described in
AMS IIPS paper 4.4 by Eugene Burger
NOAA Research Hot Items!
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To facilitate communication throughout
NOAA Research
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Laboratories, Program Offices, Joint Institutes
Hot Items! web site
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Stories are entered by authorized staff in each office
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Items appear automatically on Hot Items!
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Entered into a secure, internal web page
Published immediately or at later date
As a headline
Clickable to the full story
Archive
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Stories are archived after two weeks
Archived stories are retrievable from a searchable database
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Searchable by laboratory/program office name, date, keyword
Hot Items! Intranet website
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Panel for
laboratory,
program office
Headlines
 Click for full
story
Headline is
clickable to
full story
Login to enter Hot Items!
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Secured login to enter
stories
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User authentication
User information
encrypted in database
Session tracking to
authenticate
administrative user actions
Secure Socket Layers
(SSL) safeguards user’s
network login/password
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Story entry forms
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Free form (right)
Customized forms
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Scientific publication
Media contact
Workshop,
conference,
professional society
meeting
Searchable story Archive
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Stories
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Automatically
archived
after 2
weeks
Archive
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Search by
laboratory or
program
office, date,
keyword
Story retrieved from Archive
Two-tiered system
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“HQ-level” page with headlines for each component of the organization
“local-level” page with local headlines
NOAA
Research
Hot Items!
“HQ level” page
PMEL
PMEL
hot
items
AOML
hot items
hot items
“local level” pages
Interconnected system
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Local news stories can be “pushed” forward to the HQ web pages
NOAA
Research
Hot Items!
PMEL
PMEL
hot
items
AOML
hot items
hot items
“HQ level” page
“local level” pages
Local hot items
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Owned by local component of the organization
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Facilitates communication within local office
Local configuration
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Administration permissions
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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
Access is controlled by local management
Local management can “push” items from local level to
HQ level
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Operational within NOAA Research since July 2001
Local hot items
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Owned by
local office
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local office
name/logo
Local level
story to be
“pushed” to
HQ level
HQ Hot
Items
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Story that was
“pushed” to HQ
level
Technical overview
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Database
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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
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All entries stored in a MySQL database
Security
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See AMS IIPS paper 4.4 by Eugene Burger,
Tuesday, 9:00 AM
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
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Cascading style sheets, HTML, JavaScript