# Presentation: 028571

## NOAA Research Hot Items!

- To facilitate communication amongst the NOAA Research offices

- Nancy Soreide and Eugene Burger NOAA/OAR/PMEL
- NOAATech2002 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

## Hot Items! Intranet website

- Headlines are  clickable to 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

## 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 hot items

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

## Local hot items

- Headline clickable to full story
- Searchable archive
- local office name/logo
*Stories can be pushed to NOAA Research 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

- 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 presentation by Eugene Burger at 1:00 in AUD*