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Capturing Planetary Science Data from NASA Supported Research
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| A robust web interface will be built, creating the capability for hundreds of NASA PIs to submit planetary data and ancillary files to the NASA Planetary Data System, an archive which currently
focuses on the ingestion of large flight project databases. This interface will be transparent, requiring no knowledge of PDS specifics by the submitter. Utilizing information from the submitter, it will generate all necessary PDS internal files and formats which in turn will be automatically run through currently existing PDS standards validation software. The interface design will take advantage of common data structures across science enterprises and take advantage of the platform independence of the World Wide Web and increasing transfer rates of the Internet. This interface will allow for the rapid availability of a large amount of diverse data generated by OSS research programs, allowing for greatly increased scientific return from those programs. Prototype and final interface designs and pipelines will be reviewed by non-PDS researchers and PDS scientists and data engineers to ensure usability, efficiency, and reliability before final delivery to the PDS. The PDS Small Bodies
Discipline Node (managed by the Co-I, Dr. Michael F. A'Hearn) has committed to testbedding this interface as a precursor to broader implementation across all relevant PDS Discipline Nodes. Because
most of these data structures are also common to astrophysics data sets, this will also have applicability to astrophysics data archives. |
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