"MAG RES", 1999 AMMRL MEETING, #2

"To begin this project, we first created a strategic plan that listed our needs. Our solution was a direct consequence of this strategic plan."

OUR NEEDS

Clickable blocks for 10 minute, 1 hour, 1 day,
& multi-day reservations.

Schedule lists probe type or tuned nucleus

Users can use system without routine staff intervention

Users have passwords

Fast Downloading

Information maximized on one web page

inexpensive, easy to modify

OUR SOLUTION

HTML form files

PERL scripts

ASCII "databank" files

UNIX workstation with web server software and PERL.

"At IU, we use a Silicon Graphics Indy R4400 XL workstation with IRIX 6.2. Web server software and PERL are included with IRIX 6.2. If you have a UNIX workstation with an internet connection, but without web server software or PERL, you can download web server software and PERL from many locations on the internet. As of March 1999, the Apache web server software application can be downloaded from http://www.apache.org/, and PERL can be obtained from the Comprehensive PERL Archive Network (CPAN) at http://www.cpan.org/."

FEW colors, NO graphics, NO Java or JavaScript.

"At IU, we quickly learned from our users that they don't want to be entertained with colors, graphics, or Java. They just want to reserve time on our NMR spectrometer schedules as quickly as possible. Some users want to reserve time using relatively old computers with slow graphics. Therefore, MAG RES includes FEW colors, no graphics, no Java, and no other bells and whistles."