# Presentation: 028570

## 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

## Hot Items! Intranet website

- Headlines
- Click for full story

## 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

## Two-tiered system

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- “HQ level” page

- “HQ-level” page with headlines for each component of the organization
- “local-level” page with local headlines

*“**local level” pages*

## Interconnected system

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- “HQ level” page

- 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

## Local hot items

- local office name/logo
- Local level story to be “pushed” to HQ level

## HQ Hot Items

- Story that was  “pushed” to HQ level

## 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

- 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*