0README.TXT template
0README.TXT file for each directory to describe directory contents and point to directories below and back to higher directories and other info (mostly from John Cooper).
Keep short (point to 0README_LONG.TXT when longer file required to contrast various instruments or datasets.
Use <> around URLs and "/" at end for directories.
Use URLs to point to software and documentation.
Remember that user may come into hierarchy at any level so each 0README.TXT needs to stand alone and place the user in hierarchy.
We will review issue of automatic display at later time.
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NSSDC FTP Directory: (location of this file)
1-line title
Extended README (if exists):
Keywords: Short of list of keywords for search engines
short description of directory {up to four lines}
one line for each sub-directory name and short descriptive title
NSSDC Contact: {staff person name, phone, e-mail}
Additional related information and data services on NSSDC's Ulysses home page:
Perhaps pointers to documentation and software
Please acknowledge "the NASA National Space Science Data Center" (U.S. users) or "World Data Center A for Rockets and Satellites" (non-U.S.) for data usage.
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Example:
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0README.TXT for
Dynamics Explorer 2 (DE-2) Magnetometer-B (MAGB) datasets
Extended README:
Keywords: space physics, triaxial fluxgate magnetometer data, ionosphere, magnetosphere
In addition to the following datasets, MAG-B data are available in combined data files with data from the electric field instrument, VEFI. See
Subdirectories:
Full resolution data in GMS coordinates (VMS binary format)
NSSDC Contact: , 1-301-286-6707
Additional information is available at NSSDC's DE page and AIM information at
Please acknowledge "the NASA National Space Science Data Center" (U.S. users) or "World Data Center A for Rockets and Satellites" (non-U.S.) for data usage.
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0README.TXT for
Dynamics Explorer 2 (DE-2) Magnetometer-B (MAGB) 62ms VMS binary dataset
Extended README:
Keywords: space physics, triaxial fluxgate magnetometer data, ionosphere, magnetosphere
The data (and orbit-attitude parameters) are in 400 daily files in fixed-length VMS binary format, with filenames indicating the date with day of year (where 001=January 1).
MAG-B data are also available in combined data files with data from the electric field instrument, VEFI. See
Subdirectories:
Full resolution data in GMS coordinates (VMS binary format)
Documentation
Software
Attributes (file attributes for each data file)
Documentation and Software
General information:
Software (IDL subroutines):
NSSDC Contact: , 1-301-286-6707
Additional information is available at NSSDC's DE page and AIM information at
Please acknowledge "the NASA National Space Science Data Center" (U.S. users) or "World Data Center A for Rockets and Satellites" (non-U.S.) for data usage.
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