Catalog and Archive Service

The Catalog and Archive Service is a software component that provides an extensible way to catalog and archive data. Products can be inserted into the archive along with cataloging metadata. Products, which are treated as collections of files by the service, maintains versions of each released product and can retrieve arbitrary versions. The service also provides the capability of launching an open-ended set of triggered processing rules that can validate data and metadata, derive products, run analysis algorithms, and so forth.