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Posted by: e3po Jun 16 2020, 03:32 AM

Hey all,

I am a JPLer working toward improving the user experience of the Planetary Data System. As an interaction designer, my goal is to understand the breadth of the PDS user community. I'd like to speak to any and all willing community members about their experience using the PDS, and the ways it supports your goals as scientists, developers, students, hobbyists, and the like. I'm also interested in learning about ways it can continue to support your goals as we move forward. See our formal solicitation email quoted below.

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Hello Everyone! The Planetary Data System (PDS) has started work on our new PDS Data Services Initiative (abstract, poster), a vision to provide an integrated world-wide data services platform that enables the efficient discovery, dissemination, use and analysis of internationally sponsored planetary science archives.

As part of our initial phase, we are kicking off a user study to get a better understanding of our current user needs and requirements. The study will include individual interviews/discussions and some help with playing around with some of the ideas we put together. We are looking for folks across pretty much any domain that interacts with the PDS:
· Scientists
· Tool developers
· Data providers
· Educators
· Students
· Amateur astronomers

Thank you in advance for all of your help!

If you are interested in speaking, please feel free to send me a PM with your email address so I can arrange a day, time, and place (most likely WebEx/Google Hangouts) for our conversation. Thank you for your time and consideration, ya'll.

e

Posted by: nprev Jun 16 2020, 05:17 AM

Thanks, e.

Imagewizards, this is a terrific opportunity to help make the PDS the best it can be for us all. Please consider lending your time & expertise to this worthy project.

Posted by: elakdawalla Oct 20 2020, 07:46 PM

Bumping this topic. I have just been hired to co-chair the NASA Planetary Data Ecosystem Independent Review Board; I'm responsible for the "Searching" subcommittee but will also be working closely with the other four (especially Archiving and Utilization). I'm interested in hearing from EVERYONE what your challenges have been with finding and using data, and so on. Please respond to this request for information! https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary.do?solId=%7bF0D635B2-C638-402B-862A-9D56320B4826%7d&path=&method=init

Here is an incomplete list of things that we're going to be reviewing as part of this IRB:

ADS https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/
AMMOS https://ammos.nasa.gov/
Application Programming Interface (API)Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)
AstroMat http://www.astromat.org/
Autoplot http://autoplot.org/
Cloud computing
DAPs (Data Analysis Program, incl. Cassini DAP, Discovery DAP, New Frontiers DAP, Lunar DAP, and Mars DAP) see https://nspires.nasaprs.com/
Data archive tools
Data policies
Data standards
IPDA https://planetarydata.org/JMars
https://jmars.asu.edu/
JPL HORIZONS https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/?horizons
JSC Curation online catalogs https://curator.jsc.nasa.gov/
MAPSIT https://www.lpi.usra.edu/mapsit/
NASA Github https://github.com/nasa
NASA Planetary Github https://github.com/NASA-Planetary-Science
NASA software from missions or DAPs
NSSDCA https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/
PDART (Planetary Data Archiving, Restoration, and Tools) see https://nspires.nasaprs.com/
PDS https://pds.nasa.gov/
Planetary Geologic Mapping https://astrogeology.usgs.gov/groups/planetary-geologic-mapping-program
Planetary Photojournal https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/
Planetary Spatial Data Infrastructure
PSIDA https://psida.rsl.wustl.edu
Quickmap https://quickmap.lroc.asu.edu/
RPIFs https://www.lpi.usra.edu/library/RPIF/
Small Body Mapping Tool http://sbmt.jhuapl.edu/
Treks https://trek.nasa.gov/
USGS Astrogeology ISIS3 https://isis.astrogeology.usgs.gov/

Posted by: mcaplinger Oct 20 2020, 08:04 PM

QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Oct 20 2020, 11:46 AM)

Please respond to this request for information!

As a frequent user and perhaps even more frequent producer of PDS data, I have many things to say on this topic, but expecting everyone to send their comments in from-scratch document form via NSPIRES is a pretty steep barrier to entry.

There are plenty of on-line survey systems that could be used to collect at least a subset of useful user feedback far more easily.

Posted by: elakdawalla Oct 20 2020, 08:11 PM

I invite you to give that feedback to NASA, Mike

However, people can also email me: emily at lakdawalla dot com. I need to emphasize that those emails will become public record.