PDS Policies

Policies Related to Use of PDS4 Standards Only

• PDS Policy on Formats for PDS4 Data and Documentation (2014-06-30) (PDS4 only)
• List of supplemental formats (2014-06-30) (PDS4 only)
• PDS Policy on Data Processing Levels (2013-03-11) (PDS4 only)

Policies Related to Use of PDS3 Standards Only

• PDS Policy on Use of Compression in PDS Archive (2013-11-19) (PDS3 only)

Policies Related to Transition from PDS3 to PDS4

• PDS Policy on Transition from PDS3 to PDS4 (2010-11-16)

Policies Related to Archival Data

• PDS Policy on Review of Migrated Data (2013-11-19)
• PDS Policy on Accumulating Data (2011-03-30)
• PDS Policy on Defining Certified Data (2011-03-30)
• PDS Policy on Implementing Certified Data (2011-03-30)
• PDS Policy on Draft Data (2011-03-30)
• PDS Policy on Superseded Data (2011-03-30)
• PDS Policy on New Data formats for Science Data (2006-03-01)

Policies Related to Data Retention, Backup and Integrity

• PDS Policy on Data Integrity Checking (2008-08-29)
• PDS Policy on Use of Checksums (2008-08-29)
• PDS Policy on System Availability and Recovery (2008-08-29)
• PDS Policy on Online Data Repositories (2008-08-29)
• PDS Policy on Checksums in Data Deliveries (2008-04-04)
• PDS Policy on Data Integrity / Disaster Recovery (2006-11-30)
• PDS Policy on Data Delivery and BackUp (2005-10-07)

Polices Related to Software Archiving

• PDS Policy on Software Archiving (2016-06-08)

Other Policies

• PDS Policy on Acceptable Body-Fixed Coordinate Systems (2014-08-27)
• PDS Policy on PDS Involvement in Mission Archiving Activities (2014-08-27)