Archiving Citizen Science Data in a Public Archive: Radio JOVE Data and the Planetary Data System

The Radio JOVE project is a network of amateur and student radio astronomers who collect data about radio emissions from space, including emissions from Jupiter. Data and documents from the Radio JOVE observation stations are made available on project-specific websites, including a data archive site for the project. In recent years, several Radio JOVE observers have begun archiving their data with the Planetary Plasma Interactions (PPI) node of the Planetary Data System (PDS) for public posting and eventual archiving. This a joint project of the International Planetary Data Alliance (IPDA). Following the delivery of these raw data files from the Radio JOVE observatories, the data are transformed into the Common Data Format (CDF). This CDF version makes the data readily accessible by a number of standard analysis tools. Archiving the data provides several benefits, including storage of the data in widely used standard formats; bundling of appropriate documentation with each data set; and peer review of the data according to PDS standards. All data in PDS must undergo rigorous peer review. The peer review of the Radio JOVE data is underway. In this presentation, we discuss the process of ingesting citizen science data into the archive. Currently some data from Radio JOVE stations are publicly available, on a pre-peer review basis, via the PPI website. It is expected that these data sets will grow, complete peer review, and be officially archived before the end of 2020. Copies of the archive will be available through both PDS and the ESA Planetary Science Archive (PSA).