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…

This federal contract award was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), operating through its Office of Research Administration division. The $149,790.08 grant supports UCLA's research focused on the study of the Sun, solar wind, and the interaction between the solar wind, planets, and other solar system bodies. This research leverages data from NASA's Heliophysics System Observatory, which includes spacecraft, sounding rockets, and ground stations. The grant supports the development of an XML schema called Space Physics Archive, Search, and Extract (SPASE) to document and enable uniform access to heliophysics data products. The award has no set-aside designation and is being performed at UCLA's facilities in Los Angeles, California. The parent organization for UCLA on this contract is the State of California Controller's Office.

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.