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THE HELIOPHYSICS SCIENCE DIVISION OF NASA SPONSORS RESEARCH FOCUSED ON THE STUDY OF THE DYNAMICS OF THE SUN THE SOLAR WIND AND THE INTERACTION BETWEEN THE SOLAR WIND THE PLANETS AND OTHER SOLAR WIND BODIES. THESE STUDIES INVOLVE THE USE OF DATA FROM A VAST ARMADA OF SPACECRAFT SOUNDING ROCKETS GROUND STATION OBSERVATORIES TOGETHER CALLED THE "HELIOPHYSICS SYSTEM OBSERVATORY" COUPLED WITH INFORMATION FROM DATA MODELS AND DATA SIMULATIONS. ACCESS TO THESE DATA IS ENABLED THROUGH THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NASA HELIOPHYSICS SCIENCE DATA MANAGEMENT POLICY WHICH STRESSES THE NEED TO MAXIMIZE OPEN ACCESS TO SCIENTIFICALLY RELEVANT DATA PRODUCTS. THE HELIOPHYSICS DATA ENVIRONMENT HPDE HAS WORKED TO SUPPORT THIS POLICY THROUGH THE CREATION OF VIRTUAL OBSERVATORIES VXOS SUCH AS THE VIRTUAL SPACE PHYSICS OBSERVATORY VSPO LOCATED AT GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER GSFC. THE VXOS ARE CHARGED WITH MAINTAINING REGISTRIES CONTAINING THE INFORMATION REQUIRED TO ACCESS HELIOPHYSICS DATA PRODUCTS. AND THE HPDE HAS FUNDED AN EFFORT TO DEVELOP AN XML SCHEMA CALLED SPACE PHYSICS ARCHIVE SEARCH AND EXTRACT SPASE IN ORDER TO DOCUMENT DATA PRODUCT CHARACTERISTICS AND TO ENABLE UNIFORM DATA ACCESS. SPASE IS THE DESIGNATED STANDARD FOR DOCUMENTING HELIOPHYSICS DATA PRODUCTS AS ADOPTED BY THE HELIOPHYSICS DATA AND MODEL CONSORTIUM. SPASE HAS ALSO BEEN ED AS THE PREFERRED WORLDWIDE STANDARD FOR DOCUMENTING HELIOPHYSICS DATA PRODUCTS AFTER THE APPROVAL OF AN IAGA RESOLUTION SUBMITTED AT THE COSPAR 2018 MEETING IN PASADENA. HERE WE PROPOSE TO UTILIZE ACTIVE DATA ARCHIVE PRODUCT TRACKING ADAPT A COLLECTION OF UNIX SHELL SCRIPTS AND IDL SOFTWARE THAT ENABLES AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF SPASE XML METADATA FILES TO DESCRIBE HELIOPHYSICS DATA PRODUCTS. THEN THESE SPASE FILES WOULD BE SUBMITTED FOR REGISTRATION IN THE VXO SPASE METADATA GIT REPOSITORIES WHICH ALLOWS THEM TO BE LEVERAGED TO EMPOWER COMMUNITY MEMBERS TO DISCOVER BROWSE AND ACCESS HELIOPHYSICS DATA. THE ADAPT EFFORT IS COMMITTED TO PROVIDING ACCURATE PRECISE AND COMPLETE SPASE DOCUMENTATION FOR DATA PRODUCTS THROUGH THE IMPLEMENTATION OF QUALITY CONTROL METHODS AND THE ADOPTION OF AND ADHERENCE TO UNIFORM METADATA POPULATING STANDARDS.

$149,790FY2020National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationNASA

University Of California, Los Angeles

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