Build 14.1 Plan

The Planetary Data System (PDS) is a long-term archive of digital data products returned from NASA’s planetary missions, and from other kinds of flight and ground-based data acquisitions, including laboratory experiments. But it is more than just a facility - the archive is actively managed by planetary scientists to help ensure its usefulness and usability by the world wide planetary science community.

The following page outlines the planned PDS software enhancements, bug fixes, and impacted requirements for the upcoming Build .

A more detailed breakdown of these tasks by date and priority can be found in our Zenhub Roadmap (login required).

Key Dates

Key Dates for Discipline Nodes
Date	Name	Responsible Party	Description
02/12/24	SCR Freeze Date	DDWG	Freeze date for identifying SCRs to be implemented in this release.
02/13/24 - 04/12/24	Standards Documents Updates Due	Document Authoring Team	Updates to PDS4 standards documents due to EN for review.
04/23/24 - 05/21/24	Beta Testing Period	DNs, IPDA	Changes to PDS4 IM and system components available for beta testing.
04/23/24 - 05/21/24	dLDD Integration and Test	dLDD Stewards	Auto-generated dLDDs should be reviews by dLDD Stewards, and final updates to dLDDs should be completed during this time.
04/12/24 - 05/22/24	Standards Documents Review Due	Document Review Team	Review updates to PDS4 standards documents.
06/07/24	System Release	EN	PDS4 system is operationally deployed and website is updated accordingly.

Key Dates for Engineering Node
Date	Name	Description
03/21/24	Delivery to I&T	The PDS4 IM and all software updated during this build cycle are delivered to EN I&T.
04/8/24	Test Readiness Review (TRR)	PDS EN internal review to verify readiness to enter I&T phase.
05/30/24	Delivery and Deployment Review (DRR)	PDS internal review with PDS Software Working Group to verify readiness to deploy build system.
06/07/24	Operational Deployment	PDS4 system is operationally deployed and website is updated accordingly.

For a more detailed schedule, see https://pds-engineering.jpl.nasa.gov/content/schedules.

Planned PDS4 Information Model Changes

This section details the planned changes to the PDS4 Information Model for this build. These changes are deliverables by the PDS Data Design Working Group (DDWG) to the Engineering Node for implementation.

pds4-information-model#663 CCB-367: Superseded_by / Supersedes reference type

Planned Software Changes

This section details the planned software changes for this build.

Planned tasks for the next release cycle are grouped by software component, and sub-tasks are included where known at the time of this plan generation. Each section also includes additional information, such as:

Software description
Link to 🔍 User Guide
Link to 💻 Github Repo
Link to 🚑 Issue Tracking
Link to 📒 Backlog - future work not planned for this release cycle

Don’t see the tool you are looking for? This means there is no active development planned for this build cycle. Head to the PDS Tool Registry to see all possible tools available for PDS data.

Have a new feature or tool you think we should be working on? Create a ticket in the applicable Github repo or in our PDS EN Operations repo and we will see how that can fit into our plans moving forward.

validate

Validates PDS4 product labels, data and PDS3 Volumes

Build 14.1 Plan

Key Dates

Planned PDS4 Information Model Changes

Planned Software Changes

validate

pds4-information-model

harvest

software-issues-repo

portal-wp-tasks

operations

roundup-action

doi-ui

search-api-notebook

planetary-data-cloud

devops

nucleus

registry

registry-api

planetary-data-engine

data-upload-manager

Other Information

Reference Documents

System Requirements, Dependencies, and Assumptions