PDS User Interview Solicitation |
PDS User Interview Solicitation |
Jun 16 2020, 03:32 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 1 Joined: 3-June 20 Member No.: 8810 |
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. QUOTE 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 |
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Jun 16 2020, 05:17 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8784 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
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. -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Oct 20 2020, 07:46 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
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/solici...amp;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/planet...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/ -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Oct 20 2020, 08:04 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2517 Joined: 13-September 05 Member No.: 497 |
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. -------------------- Disclaimer: This post is based on public information only. Any opinions are my own.
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Oct 20 2020, 08:11 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
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. -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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