# Presentation: 125890

## DOE2000Electronic Notebook Project

***DOE2000*****Electronic Notebook Project**

**Al Geist**  *(ORNL)*
- Elena Mendoza *(PNNL)*
- Jim Myers  *(PNNL)*
- Noël Nachtigal  *(ORNL)*
- Sonia Sachs  *(LBNL)*

- Research sponsored by Mathematics, Information and Computational Sciences Office
- 			U.S. Department of Energy

- ANS 1998 Winter Meeting

## Laboratory Notebooks: the Heart of Scientific Research

**for hundreds of years**

- Personal notebook
- Instrument log book
- Design notebook

- Experiment log book
- Record keeping
- Regulations

## Motivation

**Motivation**

- can be shared by remote collaborators (WWW access)
- always available for input or reading (can’t be “lost”)
- can contain rich media types (text, images, files, 3D structures, voice, animations, video, ...)
- can take input directly from computers (instrument or editors)
- easy transfer of information from one notebook to another
- simplified notarization process (over the Web)
- allows querying/ searching (complex query possible)
- can include hyperlinks to other data and references

**Many advantages of using Electronic Notebook**

- See the electronic notebooks in use at RSIC

## Collaboration Tools Taxonomy

- Email
- News group
- Papers
- Mail
- Electronic Notebook

- Telephone
- Video Conference
- Chat/White board
- Shared authoring & applications
- Shared VR space
- Instrument control

_**Real Time Information Exchange**_

_**Persistent Information**_

- Legal and
- Records
- requirements

**Notebook is a chronological record of ideas, data and events**.

## Project Goals

- Design a common (open) Notebook Architecture
- extensible as technology advances
- interoperable with other notebook viewers
- customizable for unique inputs of a given project
- Develop prototype implementations
- make them available to DOE collaboratories
- general research community
- education
- industry

## Notebook  Architecture Design

**Notebook  Architecture Design**

##  Client: Key Goal is Ease of Use

- Designed so it can be used w/o a manual.
- intuitive entry, search, viewing, and navigation
- look and feel of paper notebook
- on-line help and recipes linked off page 1 of each notebook
- Input methods and tools
- interface to Web publish tools (e.g.  Netscape, MS Office)
- supply input tools sketch pad, input image or file
- annotation of existing pages
- Project Specialized Interfaces
- direct instrument interface
- data analysis tools

## Basic Design Issues

- Design that allows shared and private notebooks
- private ideas
- shared information
- easy to move information between notebooks
- Can I still read entries 25 years from now?
- computer technology and interfaces will be much different
- long term storage - format readable 25 years in future
- transfer of notebook entries as machines upgrade (eg. 64 bit)

##  Legal Design Issues

**For industrial use, the electronic notebook must be accepted by the courts as a legally binding record.**
**Tamper-proof entries**
- Authentication
- digital signatures used to verify author
- Notarization
- third party notary  + non-electronic verification
- time stamp must be based on trusted source
- Secure Storage
- entries can be verified as not changed since notarization

## Notebook Engine Design

**Notebook Engine Design**

- Modular dual pipe design can be customized with additional plug-ins

- Import

- Export

- Save

- Retrieve

- Notarize

- Storage

- Analyze

- ...

- Client

- Modules based on the input and output of basic notebook objects

- multi-part
- MIME

- client specific
- format  eg. HTML

- engine specific
- storage format

- command
- or entry

- Search

- Authorize

## Electronic Notebook Users Include

**Multi-organization Collaborations**
- Radiation Safety Information Computational Center (RSIC)
- Center for Radiation Dose Modeling and Computation (DOE/EPA/DOD/NRC)
- Materials MicroCharacterization Collaboratory Project (ANL/LBL/NIST/ORNL/U Ill)
- Beamlines at FermiLab, ANL, ORNL, TJNAF, Brookhaven, ...
**Industry**
- 3M, Hydro-Quebec power, Eli Lilly, Hoffmann-La Roche, ...
**Education**
- Krell Institute, Shodor Education Foundation, ...
_**List of users is rapidly growing! **__**(100+ groups)**_
- http://www.epm.ornl.gov/~geist/java/applets/enote/users.html

##  For Further Information

**http://www.epm.ornl.gov/enote/**

***DOE 2000 ***Electronic Notebook Website

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**Try out demo notebooks,**
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