PDS4 User Beta Testing
Mars Phoenix Website
Lynn D. V. Neakrase
Atmospheres Node
Management Council Meeting, UCLA 28-29 November 2012
Overview
• Review of the Atmosphere’s Phoenix Holdings
• Organization of the data for Beta Website
• Beta Test Worksheet and Scorecard
• Beta Test Schedule
• Current Progress
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Phoenix Holdings
• Mars atmospheric data from Phoenix Mars Lander
• 5 Archive Bundles corresponding to instruments
‣ Meteorology Package (MET)
‣ Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR)
‣ Atmospheric Structure Experiment (ASE)
‣ Atmospheric Opacity (AO)
‣ Telltale Anemometer (TT)
• Simple data - Character Tables (raw, reduced,
derived)
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Organization
• Website design focused on new look based in part
on Cassini User Guide pages
• “One-Stop Shop” approach for the mission data
with links to helpful documents and guides
• Simple and organized for easy access
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Jim Murphy produced
samples of each of the
holdings
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Worksheet & Scorecard
• For efficient use of our reviewers’ time we’ve
designed a worksheet and scorecard for a guided
review of the Beta Website
• The worksheet gives a little background on XML
and PDS4 and then asks the reviewer to work
through a couple of exercises
• Reviewer responses are then recorded on the
accompanying scorecard that allows ranking of
many points along with user comment areas
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Beta Review Schedule
✓ Design/Revise Phoenix Website (Sept-Nov 2012)
✓ Worksheet/Scorecard Design (Oct-Nov 2012)
‣ Internal Node Review of the process (Nov 2012)
‣ Independent Grad Student Review (19-30 Nov)
‣ External Beta Review (Nov 2012-Jan 2013)
‣ Compile Results (Jan 2013)
‣ Revise Web Design (Jan-Feb 2013)
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Current Progress
✓ Beebe, Neakrase, Murphy, ATMOS have identified
around 25-30 reviewers (personal contacts and
DPS recruits)
✓ Instrument Bundles updated to 300a schemas
(MET finished, other 4 on the way)
✓ Internal review is underway, one researcher has
responded, opened to martian grad students at
NMSU
✓ Will contact our Reviewers as soon as the last
Instrument Bundles are complete
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Questions? Comments?
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