The Brown Dog Tools Catalog will serve as a means to both collect new conversion/extraction tools from the community while simultaneously serving as platform for finding and preserving such tools.  We have populated the Tools Catalog with a handful of the Medici extractors and Polyglot conversion scripts to get it started:



Adding a new tool is a simple matter of registering the tool along with a very simple wrapper script that will allow either the DAP or DTS to make use of it.  Below we show an example adding scripts to make use of PEcAn for ecological model conversions: