Category Archives: Extending Libmagic

Hi All, This was my last week of the internship and major task for this week was to create the documentation for the tool created and a poster for the DataONE-AHM. Wrapper for execution: A shell script was created as a wrapper for execution of the tool which takes the file Continue reading Week 9 : Summary→

Hi All, This blog is in follow-up with my earlier blogs for the Project 4: Extending Libmagic for Identification of Science Resources. This week was very fruitful and we were able to resolve most of our design and development issues for the final application. The application developed is in its final Continue reading Week 8: DataONE MetaData parser Application→

Hi All, This blog is in follow-up with my earlier blogs for the Project 4: Extending Libmagic for Identification of Science Resources. In this week, we discussed to add more functionality in our parser and to make it easily configurable for the new file formats to add. Using a configuration file: Continue reading Week 7: DataONE Metadata Parser→

Hi All, This blog is in follow-up with my earlier blogs for the Project 4: Extending Libmagic for Identification of Science Resources. After resetting our goals for rest of the project in the previous week. The goal is to extract metadata from different file formats using Apache Tika. Since we want Continue reading Week 6: Parser, Metadata Mapper Using Apache Tika→

Hi All, This blog is in follow-up with my earlier blogs for the Project 4: Extending Libmagic for Identification of Science Resources. In this week, we shared our progress with other developers by giving a short demo. We shared the working of file command and Apache Tika for custom detection of Continue reading Week 5: Parser in Apache Tika for DataONE file Format.→

Hi All, This blog is in conjunction with my earlier blogs for the Project 4: Extending Libmagic for Identification of Science Resources. Continuing from the last week, we explored Apache serve functionality for detecting the Custom mime types for the DataONE file format. The httpd.conf file of the server is Continue reading Week 4: Creating Parser in Apache Tika for onedcx file format→

Hi All, This blog is in conjunction with my earlier blogs for the Project 4: Extending Libmagic for Identification of Science Resources. In the last week we were able to create the magic file for the file command and the repository admins of it also accepted and committed the changes in the Continue reading Week 3: Custom mimetypes/magic file for the DataONE file formats for identification using Apache Tika/Apache web server→

Hi All, This is the second week of my internship, and below are the tasks that were completed during this week. Adding the patterns for the rest of the file formats into the dataone magic file. Continuing the work from the last week, we were able to create additional patterns for Continue reading Week 2: Created, tested and Committed magic file with the Libmagic library.→

Hi All, My name is Pratik Shrivastava and I’m the intern working on the Project 4: Extending Libmagic for Identification of Science Resources. The goal of this project is to extend the capabilities of the Linux (or equivalents on OS X and Windows) file command to allow automatic identification of Continue reading Week1 – What is file command, libmagic library and how they work.→