NOAA Research Hot Items! Nancy Soreide and Eugene Burger NOAA/OAR/PMEL American Meteorological Society / IIPS January 13-17, 2002, Orlando, FL Web-based internal news pages Hot Items Technical implementation is described in AMS IIPS paper 4.4 by Eugene Burger

NOAA Research Hot Items! To facilitate communication throughout NOAA Research Laboratories, Program Offices, Joint Institutes

Hot Items! web site 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 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 Click for 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

Story entry forms Free form (right) Customized forms Scientific publication Media contact Workshop, conference, professional society meeting

Searchable story Archive Stories Automatically archived after 2 weeks Archive Search by laboratory or program office, date, keyword

Story retrieved from Archive

PMEL hot items AOML hot items NOAA Research Hot Items! “HQ level” page Two-tiered system “HQ-level” page with headlines for each component of the organization “local-level” page with local headlines “local level” pages

PMEL hot items AOML hot items NOAA Research Hot Items! “HQ level” page Interconnected system Local news stories can be “pushed” forward to the HQ web pages “local level” pages

Local hot items Owned by local component of the organization 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 Access is controlled by local management Local management can “push” items from local level to HQ level Operational within NOAA Research since July 2001

Owned by local office local office name/logo Local level story to be “pushed” to HQ level Local hot items

Story that was “pushed” to HQ level HQ 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 overview See AMS IIPS paper 4.4 by Eugene Burger, Tuesday, 9:00 AM