Conceptualization
NASA PDS Conceptualization
- 1st Place $1,500
- 2nd Place $750
- Reliability Bonus $300
- DR Points 675
Contest Overview
Detailed Requirements
The goal of the NASA PDS (Planetary Data System) application is to load planetary observation data into a relational database (MySQL) in a format that will allow the data to be queried and inspected efficiently and quickly.
The focus for this project will be the Small Bodies Node (SBN) which specializes in data concerning asteroids, comets, and interplanetary dust.
Description of the datasets from SBN available is here:
http://sbn.pds.nasa.gov/nodehtml/understanding_datasets.html
General information regarding SBN is here:
http://sbn.pds.nasa.gov/
Data by mission for comets is here:
http://pdssbn.astro.umd.edu/sbnhtml/comets/by_mission.html
An example of metadata can be found here:
http://pdssbn.astro.umd.edu/volume/sl9_0001/galileo/nims/g_data.lbl
The database design will include a metadata model that includes information about the tables and columns.
Technologies
Final Submission Guidelines
Please see the wiki - http://apps.topcoder.com/wiki/display/docs/NASA+PDS+Conceptualization
Payments
TopCoder will compensate members with first and second place submissions. Initial payment for the winning member will be distributed in two installments. The first payment will be made at the closure of the approval phase. The second payment will be made at the completion of the support period.
Reliability Rating and Bonus
The reliability bonus for each particular project depends on the reliability rating at the moment of registration for that project. A participant with no previous projects is considered to have no reliability rating, and therefore gets no bonus.
Reliability bonus does not apply to Digital Run winnings. Since reliability rating is based on the past 15 projects, it can only have 15 discrete values.
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Support
Standard 30 days support.
Eligibility
You must be a TopCoder member, at least 18 years of age, meeting all of the membership requirements. In addition, you must fit into one of the following categories.
- If you reside in the United States, you must be either:
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- A US Citizen
- A Lawful Permanent Resident of the US
- A temporary resident, asylee, refugee of the U.S., or have a lawfully issued work authorization card permitting unrestricted employment in the U.S.
- If you do not reside in the United States:
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- You must be authorized to perform services as an independent contractor.
(Note: In most cases you will not need to do anything to become authorized)
- You must be authorized to perform services as an independent contractor.
- Registrants:26
- Submissions:5
- Submission %:19.23%
- Passed Screening:3
- Passed %:60.00%
- Average Initial Score:52.43
- Average Final Score:53.10
| Handle | Date Registered |
Date Submitted |
Screening Score |
Initial/Final Score |
Digital Run
Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MiG-29 | 08.08.2011 | 08.17.2011 | 100.00 | 97.53 / 97.80 | 472.50 |
| delight | 08.10.2011 | 08.17.2011 | 98.25 | 86.74 / 88.61 | 202.50 |
| mennaya | 08.08.2011 | 08.17.2011 | 84.60 | 77.86 / 79.07 | 0.00 |
| quickly | 08.08.2011 | 08.12.2011 | 36.70 | ||
| arvind81983 | 08.09.2011 | 08.12.2011 | 25.00 |
Contest Timelines
- Posted On: 08/08/2011 05:00 PM EDT
- Register By: 08/12/2011 05:00 PM EDT
- Submit By: 08/17/2011 05:04 PM EDT
- Final Submission: 08/22/2011 04:32 AM EDT