Modifying the Heliophysics Data Policy to Better Enable Heliophysics Research

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Dec 2008

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American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2008, abstract #SA51B-01

Physics

0525 Data Management, 2199 General Or Miscellaneous, 2499 General Or Miscellaneous, 2799 General Or Miscellaneous, 7599 General Or Miscellaneous

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The Heliophysics (HP) Science Data Management Policy, adopted by HP in June 2007, has helped to provide a structure for the HP data lifecycle. It provides guidelines for Project Data Management Plans and related documents, initiates Resident Archives to maintain data services after a mission ends, and outlines a route to the unification of data finding, access, and distribution through Virtual Observatories. Recently we have filled in missing pieces that assure more coherence and a home for the VxOs (through the "Heliophysics Data and Model Consortium"), and provide greater clarity with respect to long-term archiving. In particular, the new policy, which has been vetted with many community members, details the "Final Archives" that are to provide long-term data access. These are distinguished from RAs in that they provide little additional service beyond serving data, but critical to their success is that the final archival materials include calibrated data in useful formats such as one finds in CDAWeb and various ASCII or FITS archives. Having a clear goal for legacy products, to be detailed as part of the Mission Archive Plans presented at Senior Reviews, will help to avoid the situation so common in the past of having archival products that preserve bits well but not readily usable information. We hope to avoid the need for the large number of "data upgrade" projects that have been necessary in recent years.

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