The Space Physics Data Facility (SPDF), headed by R. McGuire, is a sibling organization to the NSSDC in the Space Science Data Operations Office. The SPDF is the home node for the SPDS and the only institutional facility currently available to the C&H community. The SPDS home page [3] lives in this facility and points to pages for each of the four disciplines. These pages list nodes within that discipline. Each node, of course, has the possibility of pointing to still more nodes.
NASA has made a modest amount of funding available to the Discipline
Coordinators for travel, communications, and other support activities
associated with SPDS. The C&H DCT is contemplating the use of the bulk of
this funding to share costs on a Caltech owned computer system which would then
serve as a home node for the C&H discipline. This C&H node would
to some extent duplicate the pages at SPDF, but could add flexibility
to the system. In particular, we are looking at the idea of maintaining
a mail exploder which would make it straightforward to address email to
the entire C&H community. Useful adjuncts of such an exploder include
a bulletin board and a newsletter.