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ITDB - Web INF
2nd Quarterly Progress Report
Reporting Period:
16 January 2014 – 15 April 2014
Prepared For JRC Contract No. 226425-2013 10 KAR DE: Incident and Trafficking
Database (ITDB) Online Incident Notification Forms (Web-INF) System
April 22, 2014

ITDB - WebINF - First Quarterly Progress Report - 13 July 2020
1 Technical Progress
1.1. Achievements
As per the project plan, the 2nd quarter was reserved for development work on the WebINF system.
At the beginning of this quarter, a 2 day consultancy meeting took place during which the current
and future functionality of the ITDB WebINF system was discussed. In addition to the software
developer, the meeting was attended by five future users of the system from the Member States
(ITDB Points of Contact) and two users from IAEA who wil  be processing the results submitted
through the WebINF system. During the consultancy the current (at the time) system was presented
and the discussions were centered on how to improve the system further. Some of the suggestions
were on the format (content) of the questions in order to remove ambiguity and improve the
information that is col ected through the WebINF system. There were also suggestions on the
functionality of the system in terms of who from the Member States can have access, the process of
submitting an INF through the system, etc. After the consultancy, a meeting report was prepared
that records al  the ideas and suggestions for improvement. The report contains a list of features for
each of the areas in the WebINF that should be or can be improved. These features were then
categorized and prioritized in order to establish a work plan on which of the features have to be
implemented for the first release of the WebINF system to Member States and which features would
be nice to implement.
Based on the suggestions from the consultancy meeting, the fol owing items of the WebINF were
changed and/or improved:
Tab 1 -  the form was modified in order to support entry of multiple incident types per INF, some
questions were taken out, the text descriptions of the fields were improved and the
functionality of the location selector for the latitude/longitude coordinates was also
modified.
Tab 2 -  The layout of this section was changed so that the different sections have consistent
formatting;
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Tab 3 -  The underlying logic for conditional y displaying/hiding questions was modified due to the
new feature of al owing multiple Incident Types per incident. Most of the questions were
reworded to improve consistency with existing terminology used in publications from the
Nuclear Security Series published by the IAEA. Some new options for multiple choice
questions were introduced in order to avoid potential misinterpretation of the provided
answer. The questions were also regrouped so that the related questions are kept next to
each other and in order to improve the flow of questions in this section regardless of the
type of incident being reported.
Overall - The save/edit functionality of the WebINF was improved. Whereas before each tab had its
own save/edit/discard/delete buttons, now al  those were moved to the form level in a
newly designed toolbar. In addition, to editing capabilities, the toolbar also includes
navigation buttons (back/forward) that also have an AutoSave functionality so that it is
possible to save the changes to the document when navigating from one tab to the other
without clicking the Save button.
1.2 Status of deliverables and milestones for the 2nd quarter
No deliverables scheduled for 2nd quarter
1.3 Issues
During the consultancy meeting there were two ideas for improvement of the system that are
mutual y exclusive. On one hand some users suggested that only the latest version of the WebINF
document should be saved, so that there is no trace of data that is potential y entered at one point
and then removed. On the other hand, other users expressed the wish to be able to track the
progress of how the form was filled out and potentially to revert the form to a previous version. For
now the system only records the latest version of the form.
1.4 Next Period Plan
For the next period the system will be released for an initial test phase and subsequently it will be
opened as an additional official communication channel for Member States to send information to
the ITDB. Also development work will start on the software solution to automatically import WebINF
data into the ITDB.
In the next quarter we also plan to obtain some additional equipment that wil  help with the testing
of the WebINF system using various devices. In addition, the software developer wil  have some
training courses that will help to improve the security of the WebINF system and to be able to export
the WebINF information to the Palantir platform (for further information analysis and potentially
sharing of the information to authorized users from other departments in the IAEA)
2.0  Financial and Business Status
The financial status for the project through 16 April 2014 is summarized in the following table:
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Appendix – Project Plan

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