The purpose of this section is to provide a description of a Catalog Ingest Tool release including any impact that the new or modified capabilities will have on the Discipline Nodes or the PDS user community. A somewhat itemized list of changes for each release can be found on the Release Changes page. If viewing this document in PDF form, see the appendix for details.
This release of the Catalog Ingest Tool, is intended for beta testing by the PDS Technical Staff. The minor changes in this release include some updates to the command-line options and message severities.
This release of the Catalog Ingest Tool, is intended for beta testing at the Engineering Node. The major changes in this release include the capabilities to find new standard values and perform a complete referential integrity check within a set of catalog files. Other changes include various, minor fixes to reference validation and the compare mode functionality based on the previous beta testing period.