ogcat

ogcat is a lightweight artifact catalog for local files.

It provides a self-describing on-disk catalog layout, a small Python API, and a CLI for creating catalogs, ingesting files, recording metadata, and searching records.

Getting started

• Installation
• Getting started

Concepts

• Catalog records
• Locators and storage
• Metadata and validation
• Transactions and logging
• Hooks and plugins

Tutorials

• Tutorial: basic catalog
• Tutorial: intermediate topics
• Tutorial: advanced real-world catalogs
• Artifact workflow examples

Reference

• API reference
• Glossary
• Examples data policy
• CLI reference

Development notes

• Architecture
• Roadmap
• Ideas
• Typed Record Schemas
• Design Note: Artifact Locators
• Hooks, Plugins, And Transactions
• ogcat long-term implementation plan