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Flint – a format and file validation tool

Alecs Geuder SCAPE Information Day British Library, UK, 14th July 2014

Introducing Flint: Presentation Structure

• Introduction
• What does Flint do?
• Flint-the-API
• Policy-focused Validation
• Flint-the-toolbox
• Format-specific Implementations
• How we are using it
• Mini-demo

Introduction

• Flint facilitates [file/format validation against a policy]
• the code centres on individual file format modules (pdf,

epub, ..)

• Comes with a command line interface, GUIs and a

hadoop mapreduce program

FLint – core features

Schematron Policy

• categoryA – three tests
• categoryB – two tests

Input file

• f specific format

PolicyAware

(Uses schematron-utils)

categoryC – two tests

Format specific Implementation

• canCheck
• validationResult
• ..

<checkresult file=“input file“ result=“passed”>

<categoryA result=“passed”/> <categoryB result=“failed”/> <testB.1 result=“failed”/> <testB.2 result=“failed”/> <categoryC result=“passed”/>

</checkresult>

configuration code Set of internal & third party tools

The FLint ecosystem

config code

CLI GUIs hadoop PDF EPUB Geospatial data … Entry points Format/Feature specific Implementations

CORE

DRM-detection PDF/EPUB

Input file <checkResult>

How we are using it

• To deal with non print legal deposit

What’s next

• Add additional format/feature modules (geospatial, etc..)

Mini-demo