Data catalog project-A browsable, searchable, metadata system

A data catalog system can provide a useful roadmap of data acquired from experiments or simulations making it easier for researchers to find and access important data and understand the meaning of the data and how it was obtained. This is particularly useful in research facilities that study the results of many different experiments or simulations and may not know the intricacies of the data organization in use where the data was generated. It is also possible to store a local copy of key data items in local MDSplus trees and then add processed data to the local catalog.