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DPW Chapter 5: Orientation
Table of Contents
Chapter 5
Orientation Checklist
5.1 Establish Contact with PDS
5.2 Provide General Information to PDS
5.3 Obtain PDS Orientation Materials
5.4 Establish Technical Contacts
Chapter 5
Orientation This section describes the
first phase of the archive process. During this phase contact is
established between PDS and flight project managers or potential data
suppliers.
5.1 Establish Contact with PDS The first
point of contact with the PDS should be through the PDS Mission Products
Manager for active flight projects or through an appropriate Discipline
Node Manager. (see Appendix A, Whom to Contact). The Mission Products
Manager coordinates support for all aspects of archiving active flight
project data and provides additional support to PDS Discipline Nodes for
help with data restoration activities.
5.2 Provide General Information to PDS
For active flight projects, the following general kinds of information
will be helpful during early contact with the PDS Mission Products
Manager:
- General project information ( mission description, types and
numbers of instruments, science objectives, estimated volume of data to
be archived)
- Major project milestones (launch date, encounter date, major
project reviews)
- Project contact(s) for archive issues
For data restorations or other kinds of experiment or observation
data, general information that may be useful to the PDS Discipline Node
Manager, to the extent it is known, may include:
- Scientific value of the data
- Descriptive information about the data (spacecraft,
instrument/experiment, targets, events, range of data)
- Physical description of the data (current media, total data
volume, data organization, formats, data condition)
- Description of supporting software needed for understanding
and/or analyzing the data (e.g. data processing, reduction, analysis
software, supporting documentation)
- Description of relevant ancillary data (SEDRs, SPICE kernels,
calibration data, etc.)
- Special considerations (e.g., tapes in danger of deterioration,
PIs may move on to other projects, data is in demand, data would be easy
to restore)
5.3 Obtain PDS Orientation Material For
active flight projects, a PDS Orientation will be scheduled. At this
orientation, you will be given an overview of PDS, including general
descriptions of the roles and responsibilities of the project, the PDS
Central and Discipline Nodes and the NSSDC during the archive process. A
Data Preparation Package will be handed out, providing you with
additional information.
You may also arrange for an overview and demonstration of PDS software
tools to help determine their applicablilty to your project needs. These
demonstrations are geared to software or system engineers involved in
designing a ground data system for the project. Further information on
PDS Tools is provided in Appendix B.
For data restorations, if you will be preparing the data for archive
yourself, your Discipline Node contact may suggest that you obtain a
Data Preparation Package also.
The Data Preparation Package consists of:
PDS Data Preparation Workbook (this document)
PDS Standards Reference
Planetary Science Data Dictionary
PDS Toolbox Overview
5.4 Establish Technical Contacts For
flight projects, the Mission Products Manager will identify a data
engineer from the Central Node and one or more PDS Discipline Nodes who
will provide technical support to the project. The project should also
identify their management and technical contacts for archive issues at
this time.
Generally, flight projects will establish teams (such as the Data
Product Working Group on Magellan or the Data Working Group on Galileo)
to address project-wide archive issues. These teams are chaired by
members of the project's science community and consist of
representatives from each instrument team, PDS representatives, and
flight project engineers involved in data archiving.
In addition, PDS may establish a team, called a Mission Interface Team
(MIFT), which meets more frequently than the flight project team, and
addresses some of the more detailed archive issues. The MIFT will
consist of members of the PDS Central and Discipline Nodes, the NSSDC,
and the flight project.
For data restorations, your primary technical contact will be with the
PDS Discipline Node. In addition, the PDS Mission Products Manager will
identify a Data Engineer from the Central Node to assist the Discipline
Node as needed during the archive process.
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