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NOAA Webshop 1997 had the theme "Internet / Intranet: Building the NOAA Web" and was the third annual NOAA web conference. The conference had two consecutive sessions covering a variety of topics. The topics included data access methods, NOAAServer, NOAA's network systems, intranets, several tutorials, and a panel discussion with audience Q&A.
Below are some of the highlights of the talks that I caught.
Britt Basset, OAR/ERL, discribed his suggested method for building a NOAA-wide virtual intranet. Rather than building a private network seperate from the Internet he suggests using internet providers to carry the intranet traffic. This would require upgrading the outermost routers at each NOAA campus so they could encrypt all net traffic to other NOAA campuses. Public traffic to non-NOAA locations would not be encrypted.
In a NOAAServer architecture talk, Wayne Brazille discussed metadata cacheing, a fairly new addition to NOAAServer. In the past, each NOAAServer query was sent out to all of the NOAAServer nodes. As the number of NOAAServer nodes grew, this method became quite slow.
With metadata cacheing, each of the NOAAServer mirror sites caches the metadata from all NOAAServer nodes. In this way, all queries are handled by a single local query on the mirror site being used. This greatly decreased the number of queries sent over the network thus increasing the speed of the system. However, it has added the problem of updating the metadata in all the caches. This problem is still being addressed.
The NWSFO in Melbourne, FL has put quite a bit of training material and other information on an intranet web site. David Jacobs, Data Aquisition Program Manager at NWSFO Melbourne, presented a talk on the LANTERN (Local Area Network Training and Educational Resource Navigator) system.
We talked briefly about COMET Case Studies and similarities with LANTERN. Most of the information on LANTERN would not be of interest outside of the Melbourne FO, e.g., office procedures. He will send me a copy of the LANTERN CD so I can look at it in more detail.
Met Rose Kornutiak, NWS HQ MB4, who is working on developing a requirements document for a NWS intranet.
One thing that came up during the panel discussion at end of conference was not very clear to me. Someone brought up the Paperwork Reduction Act and how it affects web surveys. As I understood the explaination, the Paperwork Reduction Act makes surveying the public by a government entity illegal. OMB slaped wrist of Fisheries over a web survey a few weeks ago. Would this affect surveys of specific audiences not just the general public?
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