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File Analyzer Training Code4Lib 2014
Terry Brady edited this page Mar 3, 2014
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- Install and build the File Analyzer (required): Installation instructions
- Send Terry a quick note confirming that you were able to complete the installs. At the end of the pre-conference session, we will code a custom File Analyzer rule. In your email, indicate your level of experience/comfort programming in Java. This portion of the session will be tailored to the experience of the audience.
- A Java IDE is recommended for last portion of the pre-conference. If you do not already have a Java IDE available, consider installing the Eclipse Standard Edition: https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
- File Analyzer Overview
- Try it yourself
- Demonstration of highly customized File Analyzer Rules
- Your ideas for future customizations
- Coding a File Analyzer rule
User documentation is available at the link listed above.
- User Interface: Search the File System
- User interface: viewing results
- Sorting results
- Filtering results
- Exporting results
- User interface: import records from a file
- User interface: Merging and Comparing Results
Sample data files corresponding to these exercises will be provided at the start of the pre-conference session.
Run "Count Files by Type" on the "01_Flash Drive Inventory" folder.
- Sort the results from highest count to lowest count. What file type occurs most frequently? Run "Match by Name" on the "01_Flash Drive Inventory" folder.
- Which file names have been duplicated?
- Remove your open tabs Run "Match by Base Name"
- on the PDF folder
- run it again on the Word Docs folder
- Which word document does not have a corresponding PDF? Remove the tabs from all of your prior tests.
Run "Sort by Checksum" looking only at image files
- on the Checksum Tests folder.
- run it again on the Checksum Tests2 folder.
- Which files are not identical between the 2 folders?
- Remove the tab for your test on the Checksum Tests2 folder.
- Export the results from your first "Sort by Checksum" task as a tab-delimited file. Export only the key and data fields.
- Import your checksum results using "Import Delimited File"
- Use the merge tool to compare your imported file to the results from your checksum test
- No differences should exist
- Counter compliant report validation
- Output to Bursar processing
- Invoice processing
- Identify digital derivatives
- ETD Processing