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Thu Feb 13 14:07:41 UTC 2014

:-) Pleasure. I need to speak to the developer (I now work for a 
different company) so this may take time.

If it seems that things have gone quiet then 'virtually' kick me and I 
will sort it out.

Best

A
On 13/02/14 14:05, Stefan Oderbolz wrote:
>
> Hi Ant,
>
> I would be very interested in your approach of solving this "problem". 
> So if you could share your code, this would be really helpful. I'm 
> involved in a project that is just about to decide how to extract 
> metadata for very many datasets in various formats and source systems.
>
> Maybe you can make put it under a friendly Open Source license on 
> GitHub or so.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Cheers
> -Stefan
>
> Am 13.02.2014 13:11 schrieb "Ant Beck" <ant.beck at gmail.com 
> <mailto:ant.beck at gmail.com>>:
>
>     Hi All,
>
>     We (dartportal.leeds.ac.uk <http://dartportal.leeds.ac.uk>)
>     created a structured automated metadata creation system to handle
>     our data ingest of thousands of stuff (different formats, datasets
>     and sensors). There is definitely a need for this, especialy for
>     those who may want to bulk upload archives.
>
>     Our code is not generic - I'm happy to share it if you would like
>     to generify it, or if it helps in the general thrust. I'm in the
>     process of writing a blog post on our experiences for OKF
>     archaeology subsection
>
>     Best
>
>     Ant
>     On 13/02/14 12:00, ckan4rdm-request at lists.okfn.org
>     <mailto:ckan4rdm-request at lists.okfn.org> wrote:
>
>
>         Message: 1
>         Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 13:46:36 +0100
>         From: Hannes Thiemann <thiemann at dkrz.de <mailto:thiemann at dkrz.de>>
>         To: ckan4rdm at lists.okfn.org <mailto:ckan4rdm at lists.okfn.org>
>         Subject: Re: [ckan4rdm] automatic metadata extraction
>         Message-ID: <52FB6D2C.7020300 at dkrz.de
>         <mailto:52FB6D2C.7020300 at dkrz.de>>
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>
>         Dear Joe,
>
>         I believe such a thing could be pretty useful for any domain
>         specific
>         repository where the number of used formats is limited. Automatic
>         metadata generation is an important added value as the ease by
>         which the
>         data can be found is greatly improved.
>
>         Best, Hannes
>
>
>
>         Am 08.02.2014 04:22, schrieb Joe Tsoi:
>
>             Hi,
>
>             I'm one of the CKAN core devs and I've created a ckan
>             extension that
>             is a bit of a toy example. I hope that it might interest
>             some people
>             on this list. The ckan extension is for FITS images
>             generally used in
>             astronomy. When a fits file is uploaded to ckan, it
>             automatically
>             parses the file and extracts the metadata and saves it
>             against the
>             ckan resource, it also generates a greyscale jpeg image of
>             the fits
>             file which serves as the image preview when the resource
>             is previewed
>             in ckan.
>
>             I've setup a demo of it at
>             http://astro-joet.rhcloud.com/dataset and
>             I've uploaded a couple of sample images taken from the
>             Hubble fits
>             sample images. The source code for the extension is
>             available at
>             https://github.com/joetsoi/ckanext-astro . I've actually
>             added a
>             custom extension point to ckan which this extensions uses
>             that isn't
>             currently available in vanilla ckan, but I hope to get
>             some form of it
>             into ckan core. It's just a demo, so I'm pretty sure if
>             you upload a
>             non fits image it'll break, and it's pretty hacky and is
>             probably
>             buggy.
>
>             Anyway I'd like to hear if this sort of automatic metadata
>             extraction
>             is of any use to anyone, not just for astronomy, but for
>             any type of
>             file. I'm not an astronomer or anything,  I just thought
>             it might
>             serve as a good example.
>
>             Regards,
>             Joe
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