Research sponsored by Mathematics, Information and Computational Sciences Office U.S. Department of Energy Al Geist Jens Schwidder David Jung Computer Science & Mathematics Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory ORNL Electronic Notebook Architecture

Reading entries Input from Keyboard Files Images voice Instruments sketchpad Annotation by remote colleagues Shared electronic notebook Accessible with password through secure web site Personal (stand alone) notebook Drag and drop notes from private to shared notebooks Advantages and Features – ease of use, intuitive –look&feel of paper notebook – access from any web browser – no software to install – can be shared across group – or setup as personal notebook – can run stand alone on laptop ORNL Electronic Notebook

ORNL Basic Notebook Functionality Change history (pull down list) Notebook TitlePage location Navigation buttons Searching Modification buttons

Features of ADD page Author (required) Title (required) Keywords Type or cut and paste text or HTML Upload image and caption or PDF or MS Office file Three input methods 1.Text/HTML 2.Quick sketch 3.File/image upload

Many uses besides Compliant Notebooks –shared project notes –proposal development –meeting notes –instrument logs –centrally updated manuals –(chemical) inventory –distance learning –teaching tool –patient medical records –medical research logs –project tracking –private notebooks Existing Uses: The technology lends itself to a broad set of uses many of which don’t require any special compliance

New Features in Version 1.12 Extended Image upload types pjpeg, x-png, etc. Removed old Java sketchpad Evolution with Web Browsers Subscription to sets of notebooks and daily notification of changes if any Ability to print hardcopy of all or set pages matching a search User Requested Features Improved default search results Added addendums to change history Allow display of XML and HTML tags rather than execution General Improvements User Customizations For example, PSC adding feature to generate compliance page

Customization thru Worksheet Templates For certain experiments it is much more efficient to present notebook users with a custom form (worksheet) to record data. Template produced by Nestor Zaluzec for the Materials Microscopy Collaboratory Some data automatically inserted by the instrument Selective Image grab

Customized for Instrument Controls Template produced by Nestor Zaluzec Argonne Lab

ORNL enote Security Modifications New Features Add SSL encryption Access by PKI certificates Ability to create notebooks remotely and to set access policy Auditing access success and failure Modifications produced by Jim Rome of ORNL For Materials Group. See enote cookbook for SW

ORNL enote Security Modifications (cont) To wrap the ORNL V1.12 notebook in a PKI access scheme was quite simple:  About 4 lines of perl code are changed and created dynamically for each newly created notebook  The Alliare JRun servlet engine is used to mediate all access and to output the notebook html code onto an encrypted (SSL) server.  Auxiliary servlets are used to allow notebook management (creation, access control policy)

Enote Used for Remote Collaboration Courtesy of Michael Wright Instrument monitor and control panel Imbedded in page