Matching equivalent files of different formats

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on Jul 16, 2013 18:14.

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We wish to produce a tool which will enable us to tie together these different files across the directory structures according to filenames and expected migration formats. We would like to do this on existing data and also be able to to use the tool on future archives.

The tool would need to work in either a unix or windows environment and produce a report that could be visually checked as not all file relationships would be programmatically identifiable. So an interface that identified orphaned files and allowed relationships to be made would be a plus. The final relationships could then be exported as a text files or similar which we would then import into our collections management system.

We currently have the ReAct tool which was produced through a similar SPRUCE award and it would be good to extend the functionality of this tool to do more robust relationship identification (currently it matches on filenames and the user specifies the file extensions to match and also it has problems with non unique filenames across directories).

We wish to produce a tool which will enable us to tie together these different files across the directory structures according to filenames and expected migration formats. We would like to do this on existing data and also be able to to use the tool on future archives.

The tool would need to work in either a Unix or Windows environment and produce a report that could be visually checked as not all file relationships would be programatically identifiable. So an interface that identified orphaned files and allowed relationships to be made would be a plus. The final relationships could then be exported as a text files or similar which we would then import into our collections management system.