# Decentralized subscribable catalog protocol

**URL:** <https://discourse.pangeo.io/t/decentralized-subscribable-catalog-protocol/4849>\
**Category:** Data\
**Created:** [January 31, 2025, 12:48pm UTC](https://discourse.pangeo.io/t/decentralized-subscribable-catalog-protocol/4849 "2025-01-31T12:48:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![TomNicholas](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.pangeo.io/tomnicholas/32/3189_2.png) [@TomNicholas](https://discourse.pangeo.io/u/TomNicholas)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 8:09pm UTC](https://discourse.pangeo.io/t/decentralized-subscribable-catalog-protocol/4849/5 "2025-02-04T20:09:51Z")

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I’m going to give a talk + host a community discussion about this federation of catalogs problem

> [@Pangeo Showcase: "FROST: Federated Registry Of Scientific Things" (Feb 12, 2025)](https://discourse.pangeo.io/t/pangeo-showcase-frost-federated-registry-of-scientific-things-feb-12-2025/4861):
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> [[FROST: Federated Registry Of Scientific Things] ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZvJ0H89G0A) Title: “FROST: Federated Registry Of Scientific Things” Speaker: Tom Nicholas (ORCID: [0000-0002-2176-0530](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2176-0530)) When: Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 4 PM EST Where: [Launch Meeting - Zoom](https://numfocus-org.zoom.us/j/83234473026?pwd=mgM3uAuru1AE1aFPlRjW2dAAAyo8IY.1) Abstract: Context: The easiest way to store and provide access to big scientific datasets is via ARCO data in S3-compatible cloud object storage. We now have scalable cloud-optimised formats that are version-controlled at rest in object storage (par…

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