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- From: stephens@access.digex.com (John Stephens)
- Subject: Metadata-oriented file storage/retrieval
- Message-ID: <BxKJMo.K4t@access.digex.com>
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- Organization: Severn Companies, Inc., Lanham, MD 20706
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- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 20:30:22 GMT
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- I am looking for a UNIX utility or product (commercial or shareware)
- that would allow users to store and retrieve files by attributes
- (metadata) rather than the UNIX filename. For example, the user would
- supply the file name, his/her name, social security number, and/or a
- project name/number. The utility would store the file in a (remote)
- storage server.
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- The user would later be able to retrieve files by a query tool that
- would accept criteria based upon the metadata and return a list of
- files that met the specified criteria. The user could then specify
- which file/files were to be retrieved.
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- This capability could be fairly easily "fudged up" using a
- datbase/query facility and ftp or nfs, but I hate reinventing wheels.
- Does anyone know of an utility or program that already provides this
- capability?
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