SBN PDS4 Wiki
This site provides support for the PDS4 data standards and their supporting tools. It is intended for both internal and external users.
Contents
FAQ
Learning About XML
- Some Things You Should Know About XML Before You Start
- XML Standards Primer for PDS4
- Understanding XML Catalog Files
- How to View an XML File
- Anatomy of the XML Prolog
Tutorials
- PDS4 Product Labels, Step by Step
- Discipline Dictionaries, Step by Step:
- Schema Referencing in PDS4 Labels
- Using Eclipse for XML Editing and Validation
- Creating Local Dictionaries:
- Installing and Configuring LDDTool
- Creating the Ingest LDD Dictionary Input File
- Running LDDTool and Verifying the Output
- File:LDDTool 1900 examples.zip - A sample set of files for running version 8.0.0 (for version 1.9.0.0 of the Information Model) of LDDTool
- Using Local Dictionaries
- PDS4 Validate Canonical Validation Tool
- Units of Measure
Quick References
PDS4 Label Details
- <field_format> Syntax Summary
- Standard Values for Label Attributes
- Standard Values for Unit Classes
- Data Type Definitions:
Designing Labels and Archives:
Special Topics:
- A Quick Introduction to the Geometry Dictionary
- A Quick Introduction to the Spectral Dictionary
- XML Schema Regular Expressions - Basics
- PDF/A in PDS4 - A Primer
- Creating and Validating PDF/A-1 Documents
SBN Style Sheets
Workshop Support
Pages of quick links for those in workshops:
- DPS 2017 iPoster (LDDTool) Support Files
- Planetary Data Workshop 2017 Support
- St. Louis XML Training April 2015
- DPS2013 Workshop at the Denver DPS meeting
- July 2013 Moscow Workshop at IKI
- February 2013 Migration Workshop at UMD
- Moscow November 2012
- PDS3 to PDS4 Migration Workshop, September 2012
- Designing Labels
Please Note
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