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This bar indicates that you are within the PDS enterprise which includes 6 science discipline nodes and 2 support nodes which are overseen by the Project Management Office at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). Each node is led by an expert in the subject discipline, supported by an advisory group of other practitioners of that discipline, and subject to selection and approval under a regular NASA Research Announcement.

2017 AAS/DPS Fall Meeting (October 15 & 20, 2017)

Two 2-hour training courses were offered at the AAS/DPS Fall meeting held in Provo, Utah. The courses started with a 30-minute lecture with slides introducing key terms for working with the PDS4 standard. The remaining hour and a half was a guided exercise for participants to work with a simple PDS4 Bundle by building up labels with the provided sample data. All materials were given to the participants on pre-prepared PDS-branded USB thumb drives and can be downloaded as a single .tar file.

Documentation

Introduction Lecture Slides providing an introduction to basic terminology for PDS4.

Bundle Training Exercise

All files associated with the Bundle Exercise - including sample science files and a worksheet to guide the participant through the exercise.


Science Files


PDS4 Label Templates

Partially edited PDS4 Label Templates to use with the Exercise.

Completed Example

Download a completed bundle using real-world data (Mars Science Laboratory's Entry, Descent, and Landing Data) as a .tar file.