New initiatives from the Solar Data Analysis Center

We describe new initiatives undertaken by the Solar Data Analysis Center (SDAC) to better support the solar physics community. The role of the SDAC is to support the scientific analysis of solar physics data. The SDAC has begun a new effort to catalog solar physics data resources from around the web. The purpose of this effort is to more fully understand the breadth of solar physics data that are available, to provide a place where users from solar physics and other disciplines can search a curated catalog of data resources, and to inform the development of new SDAC capabilities that are aligned with NASA's Heliophysics Digital Resource Library initiative. Resources that are in scope include solar physics data from NASA (and non-NASA) supported missions and instruments (both current and historical), rocket and balloon experiments, cubesats and smallsats, and ground based instruments and facilities (for example, eclipse observations). Also in scope are online resources that describe solar features and events (for example, the HEK and the CDAW list of CMEs), and solar physics related data products which are not the primary data products of NASA solar physics missions/instruments: for example, the Helioviewer JPEG2000 image files and machine learning ready datasets fall in to this category. Another new initiative under development is the regular testing of the command-line Virtual Solar Observatory (VSO) clients. We are developing a VSO testing capability that performs automated data searches using the same SunPy, Solarsoft and VSO code that the solar physics community uses on a daily basis. The purpose of this testing capability is to capture important diagnostic information of the data search and download functionality of the VSO, SunPy and Solarsoft. This information will be used to improve the VSO, SunPy and Solarsoft. Finally, we describe some recent updates to the capabilities of the VSO, including newly available datasets.