# Presentation: 125894

## Electronic Notebooks(Collaboratories)

**James D. Myers**
**EMSL Collaboratory Project**
**Pacific Northwest **
**National Laboratory**

## Shadow Pilot:Environmental Molecular Sciences LaboratoryPacific Northwest National Laboratory

**(Real-time) Collaboration Management**

**Collaboratory Interoperability Framework**

**Electronic Notebooks**

## Collaborative Electronic Notebook Systems Association (CENSA)Rich Lysakowski  - www.censa.orgChemical and Pharmaceutical companies promoting the development of commercial EN systems

**Collaborative Electronic Notebook Systems Association (CENSA)****Rich Lysakowski  - www.censa.org****Chemical and Pharmaceutical companies promoting the development of commercial EN systems**

## DOE2000 Electronic Notebook Project

_**LBNL**_

_**ORNL**_

_**PNNL**_

## Notebooks: The Heart of Research

##  Group Workspace

-  Group Workspace

## Slide 7

## Electronic Notebook Design

***Securable, shared WWW based space ***
***Interactive input of results into notebook***
***Rich media types (text, images, files, 3D structures, voice, animations, video, ...)***
***Querying/ Searching***
***Automation of ***
***Data/Metadata input from instruments and calculations***
***Access to full datasets***

## Electronic Notebook Design

**Electronic Notebook Design**

***Modular/Extensible***
***New data types***
***New data views***
***Digital Signatures***
***Witnessing***
***Timestamps***
***Fine Grained Authorization***
***Import/Export***

## Electronic Notebook Design

***Notification/workflow***
***Mobile use/ synchronization***
***Problem Solving Environment***
***Database functionality***
***user definable schemas***
***sophisticated queries***

## CENSA Issues - Legal defensibility

***Conversion to ‘PDF’***
***Biometric authentication***
***Timestamp services***
***FDA/Patent office rules***
***Authentication timeout***
*** ******Visible signature***

***Records Management***
***audit trail***
***archival bond***
***retention schedules***
***format migration ***
***signature migration***
***Modularity***

## Aside: Preservation and Integrity of Electronic Records

- www.slais.ubc.ca/users/duranti
- “Diplomatics: New Uses for an Old Science”** Archivia **30 (Summer 1990) pp.5-14

## DOE2000 EN Approach

**Started with 3 separate prototypes at 3 labs**
**Defined common architecture and all are migrating towards it (e.g. editor interface, import/export)**
**Providing prototypes and support now(install, docs, help, SDKs, ...)**
**New functionality available every ~6 months**
**Revolutionize over 3 years**

## A Common Architecture

-       Notebook Client

- ODB

- OPM/Rel

- Files

- Common
-  Notebook
-  Engine

- Data Storage
-  Interface

- Resource Discovery
- Signing
- ...

- CORBA
- HTTP
- JAVA

- Advanced
- Features

- Data
- Acquisition
- Systems (many)

- Input interfaces (few)

- migrated
- Advanced
- Features

## Progress toward common Architecture

**Notebook Object Definition**
**Editor API**
**Common Editors (e.g. sketchpad, image capture)**
**Import/Export format (MIME encoding)**
**Signing format**
**Viewer API**
**Client-Server Protocol**

## Notebook Objects and Editors

## Notebook Object Fields

**String authorName**
**String objectID**
**String dateTime  **
**String label**
**MIME dataType**
**Byte data[]**
**URL dataRef**

**Version**
**OID**
**Instrument ID**
**Author Certificate**
**Author DN**
**NB Engine DN**
**NB Certificate**
**Signature - author**
**Signature - witness**
**Signature - timestamp**

***Defined                                        TBD (non-standard)***

## Can I get a notebook now?

**All three labs provide downloads, instructions, support**
**Author/View**
**Search**
**(Editor API)**
**Editor SDK**
**(Import/Export)**

**Instrument Interfaces (PRE/CORBA)**
**Notification**
**Mobile use**
**SSL**
**(Signing - depends on licensing)**
**...**
**CENSA ERS in FY99**

## Collaboratory tools 

**Lab Notebook**

**Collaboratory tools **

**Colleagues**

**Session Manager**

**Shared Computer Display**

**Whiteboard**

**Analysis Tools**

**Scientific **
**Instruments**

**Information Browsing**

## EMSL On-Line RF Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer

**EMSL On-Line ****RF Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer**

## EMSLElectronic Notebook

**EMSL****Electronic Notebook**

** ****Secure  WWW**
** ****Access**

## CIF Enabled Collab Tools:

***Web Registration/***
***ID Request***

***Electronic Notebooks***

***Video/ data Conferencing***

***Collaborative Instruments/ Analysis Tools***

***PKI***
***Authentication***

***People/***
***Resource***
***Information***

***Access policies***

***Communications***

***Session Management***

## Conclusions

**Electronic notebooks exist now, and will continue to improve**
**Pilot users want authentication and signing**
**Signing Design/implementation in progress (need PKI and cipher licenses for deployment)**
**Will be able to share resource discovery, management, and security infrastructure with real-time collaboration tools and  remote instruments**
**You can only stack so many research projects**

## Acknowledgments

**PNNL - Jim Myers, Elena Mendoza**
**LBNL - Sonia Sachs**
**ORNL - Al Geist, Noel Nachtigal**
**U.S. Department of Energy**
**Mathematical, Information and Computational Sciences Division of the Office of Energy Research ****	**** **
**DOE2000**
**Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)**
**Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) ****	**

- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is a multiprogram national laboratory operated by Battelle Memorial Institute for the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract DE-AC06-76RLO 1830.

## Websites & email

**DOE2000 Electronic Notebooks ****http://www.epm.ornl.gov/enote/**
** ****- links to LBNL, ORNL, PNNL sites (with notebook prototypes, SDKs, docs, help, ...)**
**doe2000-en@emsl.pnl.gov**
**EMSL Collaboratory**
**http://www.emsl.pnl.gov:2080/docs/collab/**

_**Websites & email**_