High-Level Overview

This section gives an introduction to:

• the goals of the project, and now it relates to the rest of the Open Access and archival ecosystem
• how catalog data is represented as entities and revisions with full edit history, and how entities are referred to and cross-referenced with identifiers
• how humans and bots propose changes to the catalog, and how these changes are reviewed
• the major sources of bulk and continuously updated metadata that form the foundation of the catalog
• a rough sketch of the software back-end, database, and libraries
• roadmap for near-future work