About Catalog Ingest Tool

The Catalog Ingest Tool (CITool) is intended to streamline the ingestion process. The legacy process involves a myriad of tools and manual steps in order to ingest catalog files submitted by the nodes into the PDS central catalog. CITool offers three functions:

  • Compare a Catalog Submission
    The comparison function is intended for both Discipline Node and Engineering Node Data Engineers to determine the differences between previous submissions and a current submission.
  • Validate a Catalog Submission
    The validation function is also intended for both Discipline Node and Engineering Node Data Engineers to validate a current submission including checks for referential integrity.
  • Ingest a Catalog Submission
    The ingestion function is intended for the Engineering Node Operator to ingest the current submission into the PDS central catalog.

Please send comments, change requests and bug reports to the PDS Operator at pds_operator@jpl.nasa.gov.