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Add ability to list files in a zipfile #40

Open empavia opened 2 days ago

empavia commented 2 days ago

Our UI/UX contract team has requested the ability to list out files in a zipfile in the metadata file. The catalog will be listing files to be found in a zipfile and the metadata can facilitate that while acting as a source of truth. It would be great to list the paths similar to how text files list fields.

jagoldstein commented 1 day ago

I agree that this feature would be very useful, because otherwise there's the risk of dataset creators only providing metadata for the zip generally, rather than there being metadata to describe each file within it. We battled this issue at NCEAS when researchers wanted to cut corners by only describing the top-level zip (or other compressed format) file, but of course having only that coarse level of detail is usually insufficient for other users.