| Planetary Data Archiving, Restoration, and Tools (PDART) | |
| The ROSES 2016 Planetary Data Archiving, Restoration, and Tools (PDART) Appendix C.7, specifies that: | |
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| The research solicitation states: | |
| The Planetary Data Archiving, Restoration, and Tools (PDART) solicits proposals to generate higher-order data products, archive and restore data sets or products, create or consolidate reference databases, generate new reference information, digitize data, and develop or validate software tools. | |
| The objective of this Program Element is to increase the amount and quality of digital information and data products available for planetary science research and exploration, and to produce tools that would enable or enhance future scientific investigations. Although it is expected that a small amount of data analysis, interpretation, or modeling may be performed to validate any generated products, this Program Element does not accept proposals in which the main focus is hypothesis-based science. |
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| Step 1 Proposal Due Date | Data Included in PDS by | Step 2 Proposal Due Date |
| 05/13/16 | 06/15/16 | 07/15/16 |
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| Mission data are available from the Planetary Data System (PDS). | |
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| Data available from The Planetary Plasma Interactions (PPI) Node |
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| Other Data Within PDS | |
| The following Discipline Nodes have additional information: | |
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Atmospheres Node Cartography and Imaging Sciences Node Ring-Moon Systems Node Small Bodies Node Geosciences Node | |
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| Ancillary data (SPICE files) can be obtained from the NAIF Node | |
| The data to be used in proposed investigations must be available in the Planetary Data System (PDS) or equivalent publicly accessible archive at least 30 days prior to the proposal submission date. This 30-day rule does not apply to unarchived data from missions prior to the creation of the PDS if the dataset in question will be archived to PDS through the proposed project. Proposals to digitize and/or archive data not currently available in a public archive must demonstrate that the data to be used are available (such as a letter of support, if they are owned by a private entity, or a detailed plan to locate and obtain the data from a known repository), in a format suitable for the proposed work, and of sufficient quality to achieve the goals set forth in the proposal. | |
| This Program Element uses a two-step proposal submission process described in Appendix C.1, section 2. Because data archiving is an integral part of PDART and evaluated as part of the merit, a data management plan should be integrated as part of the Science/Technical/Management portion of the proposal, no additional DMP section is required for this Program Element. | |
| For all types of proposals, the products of selected proposals must be made available to the scientific community. Data products must be archived in the NASA Planetary Data System (PDS) or an equivalent archive by the end of the award period. Proposers should communicate with the PDS Discipline Node responsible for curating similar data (links to the PDS Discipline Nodes are at http://pds.nasa.gov/) to discuss procedures and requirements prior to proposing and to help with discerning the most efficient way to archive your proposed data. Proposers intending to archive data or products in the PDS must obtain and include confirmation from the appropriate Discipline Node that the PDS is willing to accept their submission. It is the proposer's responsibility to conform to PDS standards. Investigators that intend to produce a USGS geologic map are required to include in their Step-2 (full) proposal a confirmation of technical specification document obtained from the USGS Map Coordinator. Proposers are advised to read C.1, The Planetary Science Division Research Program Overview, for the USGS' information on and requirements for map production and publication. | |
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| Proposals to generate higher-order data products than those that currently exist are encouraged. Proposals to archive complete datasets and/or to restore and archive incomplete datasets (e.g., to reextract, rereduce, and/or recalibrate data to fill in fragmentary datasets) will be considered. Proposals that create or consolidate reference databases useful for planetary science research or to make laboratory measurements, conduct experiments, or otherwise generate new reference information that is intended for general use in planetary science will be considered. This Program Element encourages proposals to recover datasets that currently are available only on media not readable by modern computing equipment, or to digitize data that are only available in analog form. This Program Element supports the development and dissemination of software tools that facilitate the use of existing datasets or that would enable or enhance future science investigations of interest to the Planetary Science Division. It is expected that user interfaces and/or executables will be made publically available at no cost. Accordingly, awards made under this program element will contain a Rights in Data clause reflecting this expectation. Proposals to develop tools that would enhance the usability of, and access to, the PDS4 file format are particularly encouraged. Of special interest are tools for converting PDS4-formatted files into other popular file formats. |
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Web Master: PDS-PPI Operator Nasa Official: William Knopf Last Updated: Febuary 2009 |