The DCT has recommended funding restoration of Helios plasma wave data, which will eventually turn up on the Web. We are cognizant of the recent funding of LSU to support a node containing cross section data for nuclear interactions. This node will be `entirely' funded by SPDS and so might be another possibility for the C&H home page/node discussed in section 2.3. The Pioneer plasma data at Ames Research Center should be on line by the time of the ICRC. We are also working to bring the Mt. Washington neutron monitor data into the SPDS.
Among planned nodes, the ACE Science Center has been planned since its relatively recent inception as a node of the SPDS. ACE will supply a `browse parameter' file with data from each of the nine instruments, with a very short delivery time (<10 days goal). The Science Team is also soliciting collaborations with other missions and plans to include data from other missions in the browse file.
In regards to funding from SPDS, we currently give preference
in our recommendations to data restoration proposals as
suggested by the workshop. The priorities for that process have
been guided by a Data Evaluation Report [4.], prepared by a separate panel
which predates the workshop and the current structure. We are still
in the process of updating and enlarging that report. There have not been
as many proposals as we hoped, and one objective of this paper is to seek
additional proposals and/or advice on data restoration.
The other disciplines are moving toward a consensus that restoration
is adequately completed and accessibility should be the highest
priority. C&H is clearly behind the other disciplines and we are
anxious to hear suggestions/proposals from the community to rectify this
situation.