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Advice on Archive Planning and Preparation

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.

Planning Documents

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 Proposer's Archiving Guide (PAG)

  • The PAG is available in three formats: Hypertext, .doc file, and .pdf file

      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
      • Mission archiving roles and activities
      • Steps in the archive process
      • Costing the archive activity
      • Typical deliverables
  • The Archive Preparation Guide (APG)

  • The APG is available in two formats: Hypertext, and .pdf file

      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.

      • Archive Planning / Design
      • Archive Development / Testing
      • Data Production / Distribution / Maintenance


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