In developing the data model for SPASE the group used or evaluated information from the following sources:

Data Model References

• NASA's Planetary Data System information for Data Producers

• Astrophysics Data Center XML efforts
• eXtensible Data Format (XDF)
• XML committee registry of DTD
• NSSDC Standard For Data Understanding (SFDU)
• ISO/CCSDS Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS).
• JPL Object Oriented Data Technology
• SwRI Instrument Data File Set (IDFS)
• Cluster Exchange Format (CEF)
• Interoperability between Independent Space Physics Data Centres (CDPP)
  

Frameworks

• W3C DAML+OIL Reference Description
• W3C Resource Description Framework (RDF)
• Ontology Interface Layer (OIL)
  
• W3C SOAP
  

• NOAA Space Physics Interactive Data Resource (SPIDR) II
• CDPP Data system
• NSSDC Master Catalog
• SwRI Structured Browser
• NASA's Planetary Data System (PDS)
• PDS Planetary Image Altas
• Cluster PEACE Data System
• CNES SADS
• GeoVirgil

Tools

• OilEd - Ontology Editor