The following notes were taken by Elizabeth Rye. Corrections are welcome.

Planetary Data System Standards Teleconference
August 13, 2008 9-11 AM

Participants:

Richard Chen (EN)

Rose Early (SBN)

Lori Feaga (SBN)

Patty Garcia (IMG)

Mitch Gordon (RINGS)

Lyle Huber (ATM)

Steve Hughes (EN)

Chris Isbell (IMG)

Anne Raugh (SBN)

Elizabeth Rye (EN) on vacation

Dick Simpson (RS) on vacation

Announcements:

None

Telecon Discussions:

1. SCR status:

• SCR3-1087: PDS Standards on Sequences
  WG: E. Rye (lead), P. Garcia, M. Gordon
  • no objections to vtool requiring comma delimiter (throw error for space delimiter)
  • concerns raised by Dick about changing ODL standard (Does ODL standard belong to PDS or not?) Steve Hughes said essentially, yes, standard belongs to us. EOS uses it a little, but not to anywhere near the depth we do.

• SCR3-1116: Align Online PSDD with pdsdd.full
  WG: E. Rye (lead), J. Ho, R. Joyner, D. Simpson
  • no update
  • D. Simpson sees no need to proceed with this SCR. Elizabeth feels that it just requires a few simple and sensible updates which should proceed given that StdRef is being updated anyway.

• SCR3-1126: Multiple occurences of the same keyword in an object - Valid or Not?
  WG: T. King (lead), M. Cayanan, L. Huber, S. Hughes, A. Raugh, D. Simpson
  • Todd absent; other WG members say no update

• SCR3-1127: Pointer/Object Ambiguity in the Standards Reference
  WG: T. King (lead), M. Cayanan, L. Huber, S. Hughes, R. Joyner, A. Raugh
  • absent

• SCR3-1135: PDF/A as a potential replacement for TEXT documents
  WG: L. Huber (lead), P. Garcia, R. Joyner, T. King
  • no update

• SCR3-1139: Add Std Vals for MGN Bistatic Radar and Cassini Orbiter
  WG: R. Chen (lead), J. Diehl, E. Rye, D. Simpson
  • no update

• SCR3-1140: Update StdRef to bring ADD reqs. in alignment with PAG and APG
  WG: E. Rye (lead), R. Joyner, D. Simpson
  • no update

• SCR3-1141: Increase DATA_QUALITY_ID to 16 characters
  WG: R. Chen (lead), E. Rye
  • for now, "fix" keyword by changing to CHARACTER, increasing length, put out for vote
  • As PDS4 issue, address confusion among IDENTIFIER as lexical element, data type, and class word

2. Further Issues:

• Frequency of telecons?
  • Once a month.

• Strategies for making progress on remaining SCRs?
  • If an SCR has been stagnant for 3 months, a warning will be sent to the lead that progress must be made by next telecon or status will be changed to "PARKED". Once that is done, SCR can be re-assigned to new lead and WG. If no interest, SCR remains parked.

Next telecon scheduled for 2008-09-10.