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title: Getting Started
description: Resources to quickly get started using the PSI Data Catalog
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Please see the following resources to get started using the PSI Data Catalog:

- The comprehensive **[Ingestor Manual](ingestorManual.md)**.
- A 2019 presentation [Data Catalog for Scientific Data: How to get
  started](assets/presentations/SciCatGettingStartedSLSSummary.pdf), targeted towards
  SLS users (_note: some commands are now outdated._)
- [CLS Data Catalog
  Documentation](https://intranet.psi.ch/en/cls/data-catalog-and-archive) targeted
  towards life science users
- The [OpenEM](https://www.openem.ch/documentation) project documentation, which uses
  the catalog for electron microscopy data.