PDS_VERSION_ID = PDS3 RECORD_TYPE = FIXED_LENGTH RECORD_BYTES = 80 OBJECT = TEXT PUBLICATION_DATE = 2018-07-17 NOTE = "Description of contents of INDEX directory" END_OBJECT = TEXT END The INDEX directory contains an index for this volume (INDEX.TAB) and a cumulative index for the volume set (CUMINDEX.TAB). Accompanying each *.TAB file is a PDS label (INDEX.LBL and CUMINDEX.LBL, respectively). The *.TAB files are ASCII files. Each line (or record) in INDEX.TAB contains information about a single data file in this data archive volume. Each line in CUMINDEX.TAB contains information about a single data file in the archival volume set as produced to date. Each line in a *.TAB file is made up of ten comma-delimited fixed-length fields. Six fields contain character strings, which are enclosed by double quotes. The other four fields contain date/time information; those values are NOT enclosed by quotes. The *.LBL label files describe the format and content of the respective *.TAB files at the byte level. Simply stated, the fields are: 1) identifier of the archival volume 2) path to the PDS detached label for each data file (or, in the case of files with attached labels, the path to the file itself) 3) name of the data file 4) original file name, if the file came from another source where it was named differently (or blank, if there was none) 5) type of the data file (a three-character mnemonic) 6) start date/time of the data in the file 7) stop date/time of the data in the file 8) creation date/time for the file 9) release identifier (a four-digit number starting from 0001 that gives the sequence in which volumes were released; when several volumes were released together, they have the same RELEASE_ID) 10) release date - the date on which the volume was released to the public (the most recent release date may be given as 0000-00-00 since the actual date was not known when the volume was created)