1. Helping Active Missions Convert to PDS4
Ray Arvidson and Susie Slavney
PDS MC, November 29-30,2017

2. PDS Management Council
How the Geosciences Node is helping active missions make their conversion plans
ODY
MER
MRO
MSL
LRO
Planning steps 
Geo opens conversation with mission and offers to help make plan
Geo creates preliminary assessment of level of effort for each data set, with input from the other nodes archiving for the mission
Geo and mission hold initial DAWG meeting so all teams and nodes are informed
in progress
Nodes and individual teams meet to scope the work for each data set
Nodes and teams break down conversion work into steps and assign each step to team, PDS, or others (e.g. OPGS/MIPL)
Responsible parties estimate the costs of each step
Mission compiles the results in a report to deliver with extension proposal in April 2018
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3. PDS Management Council
Considerations for scoping the conversion effort for a given instrument team
What data should be converted?
All PDS3 data sets for the instrument?
Ancillary data: browse, calibration, extras, etc.
For each of the above, is it A, B, or C?
A = PDS-compliant data, PDS3 keywords easily mapped into a PDS4 label.
B = PDS-compliant data, some dictionary work needed to make a PDS4 label.
C = Data are not PDS-compliant.
For Category B, what dictionary work is needed?
For Category C, what needs to be done to make the data PDS-compliant?
What software will need to be acquired, revised, or created?
Tools to design and mass-produce PDS4 labels
Revisions to existing software that reads PDS3
What documentation will need to be revised or created?
Who is best positioned to do the work?
Instrument team
PDS node
Third party such as MIPL/OPGS
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Questions
Can missions wait until end of operations before beginning to convert data to PDS4?
Should all of a mission’s data be converted to PDS4?
When is the one-year extension plan due? For Mars missions it’s “estimated to be April 2018” but what about LRO and others?
How detailed should the PDS4 conversion plan be? Rumor is that it might be just one slide with a total cost per fiscal year.
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5. PDS Management Council
Background
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6. “Dear Colleague” letter from Jim Green
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7. PSD Plan to Align with 3yr SR Cadence
PSD plans to extend its missions in extended operations through FY19 through an enhanced PPBE request.
Each flight project is requested to provide a sciene plan for an additional 12 months of mission extension through FY19, indicating the science they plan to conduct
Each Project is required to submit a plan, coordinated with their Planetary Data System counterparts, to migrate datasets from PDS3 to PDS4. Additional funds will be provided by NASA to accomplish this effort.
Each project is requested to propose a plan for delivery of any higher-order data products that should be archived by the PDS.
Schedule & Specific Instructions
All Mars Projects should submit their science plans concurrent with the next PPBE cycle (estimated to be April )
MAVEN will be asked to propose science based on the Mars orbit NASA determines they will be operating in for relay purposes
LRO to provide an integrated Lunar science plan coordinating multi-instrument observations
Juno will submit their plan in Nov, after completion of the Operations Review for FY19
Source: message received by Noah Petro, LRO, and forwarded to Susie Slavney and Maria Banks
November 29-30, 2017
PDS Management Council