# Introduction to Planetary Data and the PSA

**URL:** <https://openplanetary.discourse.group/t/introduction-to-planetary-data-and-the-psa/175>\
**Category:** OP Data Cafés\
**Tags:** demo, epsc-dps2019\
**Created:** [September 9, 2019, 12:19pm UTC](https://openplanetary.discourse.group/t/introduction-to-planetary-data-and-the-psa/175 "2019-09-09T12:19:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![sbesse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@sbesse](https://openplanetary.discourse.group/u/sbesse)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2019, 12:19pm UTC](https://openplanetary.discourse.group/t/introduction-to-planetary-data-and-the-psa/175/1 "2019-09-09T12:19:03Z")

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The discussion will be around the nature of planetary data, and how to find/use them.  
Feedback and answers on the future development of planetary data services will be discussed.  
At the end, a short demo of the PSA service will be done.

What is planetary data

- type of data
- format  
How to discover planetary data
- internationalisation of data
- where are the good data  
Where do we go
- future development of planetary archives
- needs of planetary data

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**Author:** ![aprossi](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/openplanetary.discourse.group/aprossi/32/31_2.png) [@aprossi](https://openplanetary.discourse.group/u/aprossi)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 12:32pm UTC](https://openplanetary.discourse.group/t/introduction-to-planetary-data-and-the-psa/175/2 "2019-09-19T12:32:14Z")

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- There has been an extensive discussion on PDS/PSA data
- Discussion on the use of (generic) planetary data in scientific publishing, archiving and data archives in planetary science (several, heterogeneous, e.g. institutional repositories, Zenodo, Figshare, etc.
- Highlighting the importance of PDS registry (vs. more complex registry of the many data from peer-reviewed papers deposited in repostiories
- Next session/discussion needs more time 😉
- need (registry of ) registry of planetary data + need for catalog + tools to retrieve and display the data → We are working on all of it e.g. @PDS @VESPA
- if any error is found on PDS/PSA → Please contact PDS/PSA node and/or PI (if still alive)

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**Author:** ![nmanaud](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/openplanetary.discourse.group/nmanaud/32/8_2.png) [@nmanaud](https://openplanetary.discourse.group/u/nmanaud)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 12:40pm UTC](https://openplanetary.discourse.group/t/introduction-to-planetary-data-and-the-psa/175/3 "2019-09-19T12:40:49Z")

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How do archiving authorities (PDS, PSA, etc…) capture the needs and feedback from the user community to improve their services?

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**Author:** ![jpadams](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/openplanetary.discourse.group/jpadams/32/104_2.png) [@jpadams](https://openplanetary.discourse.group/u/jpadams)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 12:46pm UTC](https://openplanetary.discourse.group/t/introduction-to-planetary-data-and-the-psa/175/4 "2019-09-19T12:46:08Z")

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For NASA PDS, there are few ways:

1. You can use this OpenPlanetary forum ([http://openplanetary.discourse.group/](http://openplanetary.discourse.group/)) for discussion
2. Or you can submit feedback directly to the PDS: [https://pds.nasa.gov/?feedback=true](https://pds.nasa.gov/?feedback=true)
3. Or if it applies to a specific tool, feel free to post tickets to the Github repo: [https://github.com/NASA-PDS-Incubator/](https://github.com/NASA-PDS-Incubator/), [https://github.com/NASA-PDS/](https://github.com/NASA-PDS/)

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**Author:** ![jpadams](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/openplanetary.discourse.group/jpadams/32/104_2.png) [@jpadams](https://openplanetary.discourse.group/u/jpadams)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 1:00pm UTC](https://openplanetary.discourse.group/t/introduction-to-planetary-data-and-the-psa/175/5 "2019-09-19T13:00:05Z")

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> Highlighting the importance of PDS registry (vs. more complex registry of the many data from peer-reviewed papers deposited in repostiories

Per the comment above, we (the PDS) are working on a solution here. But in the meantime, you can try out our “Keyword Search” to track down specific data sets ([PDS: Keyword Search](https://pds.nasa.gov/datasearch/keyword-search/)) or our “Data Search” to find more refined/advanced product-level searches ([PDS: Data Search](https://pds.nasa.gov/datasearch/data-search/)). You can also find other search tools (along with other PDS and community contributed tools) at [PDS: Tool Registry](https://pds.nasa.gov/tools/tool-registry/) .

They Keyword Search also has a JSON response you could access programatically, e.g. ([https://pds.nasa.gov/services/search/search?wt=json&q=investigation:insight](https://pds.nasa.gov/services/search/search?wt=json&q=investigation:insight)).

If you have ideas for what you would like to see, let us know!