Proposers are encouraged to contact early a member of staff from
a discipline node most closely associated with your planned research.
The staffs at the discipline nodes are your best sources for all
aspects of archive planning and preparation.
The PDS offers two tutorial documemts designed to assist with the early stages
of archive planning. Although both are written primarily from a mission perspective,
the information they contain is also relevant to proposers to NRAs.
The PAG provides basic information on the archiving process to scientists proposing
for NASA planetary programs. This document addresses the following topics broadly,
but with enough detail that scientists should be able to draft the archiving section
of a planetary proposal.
Overview of the archiving process, including goals
Elements of a good archive
Organization and structure of the Planetary Data System
The APG provides a step-by-step, “cookbook” approach to preparing data for submission to the PDS.
You should begin planning to archive the products that you defined in your proposal as
soon as you are funded. Producing an archive generally proceeds in three steps. After
some brief comments on archiving philosophy, the APG describes each of these steps
in some detail.
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