Is there a way to load attribute/value pairs from another application into the MCAT?
Yes. SRB allows one to bulk ingest metadata associated with one or more SRB objects. This is done by writing a metadata file in a particular format. Hence, if an application can generate a file in that format or one can write a wrapper which takes the application output and creates the file in the SRB metadataFile format then we can ingest the metadata attribute/value pairs. Actually, if you are doing this in Unix-based systems you can do that by writing simple scripts or by piping multiple applications together with the final pipe going to the SRB Scommand for ingesting metadata. Also another unique way of associating metadata for SRB objects is to do automatic extraction INSIDE SRB and storing them in the MCAT. This is done by writing simple templates (basically rules) that allows one to identify the metadata values in the SRB object and then extracting them and storing them as attribute-value pairs in the MCAT. We have done this type of templates for multiple file formats including
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