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Importance of Heliophysics standards and metadata guidelines for effective data analysis
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  • Robert Candey,
  • Bernard Harris,
  • Ramona Kessel,
  • Tamara Kovalick,
  • Michael Liu,
  • Robert McGuire,
  • D Aaron Roberts
Robert Candey
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

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Bernard Harris
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
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Ramona Kessel
NASA
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Tamara Kovalick
ADNET Systems Inc. Greenbelt
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Michael Liu
ADNET Systems Inc. Greenbelt
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Robert McGuire
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
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D Aaron Roberts
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
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Abstract

The Space Physics Data Facility (SPDF) has developed and/or leveraged standardized self-describing data formats, metadata for datasets and parameters, time conventions, and dataset and filenaming conventions that enable effective data analysis and browsing using generic easy-to-use software and web services. Software and services include SPDF’s CDAWeb , and external tools such as Autoplot and SPEDAS IDL library. Standards and conventions include: datasets and filenaming and , the CDF scientific data format (including its new Python library ), the ISTP/IACG/SPDF Guidelines for global and variable attributes , time variable types , and the SKTeditor metadata creation tool . The SPASE standards for describing datasets for easy searching are crucial to the Heliophysics Data Portal .