Recommendation 41: NASA should establish guidelines for preserving high-level data sets of interest that are not appropriate to PDS archiving.

[PDE-CS]

Recommendation 41 NASA should establish guidelines for preserving high-level data sets of interest that are not appropriate to PDS archiving. Designate data repositories that comply with FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data principles.

[PDE-CS]

PDS Management Response:

• PDART and other ROSES solicitations already require archiving of any derived products from proposals. PDART defines equivalent archives and lists several including HiTRAN and PDS IMG annex. Several PDS nodes have or are creating Annexes for the archive of well documented data that are either not PDS compliant or are awaiting peer-review.
• Please note that ESA’s Planetary Science Archive Guest Storage Facility is not an archive since peer-review is not required.
• NASA/ PDS does need a better way to determine what products need full review and what don’t.