Download or read book Directory Structure for the Archival of Large Amount of Data Files written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In trials & military missions, thousands of data files may be acquired by different sensors operated by independent teams, resulting in a complete mess of data that prohibits retrieving & analyzing the global information. This paper paper presents a simple method of archiving data, consisting mainly of naming directories within a pre-defined directory structure where the names correspond to keywords that can be retrieved from a database. No special software or file formats are required, only minimal discipline from the operators that acquire the data. The benefits of the method include easier exchange of data with others and the ability to automatically decode the data by a program. The directory structure allows one to program a database application that can read the archive content and automatically feed a database catalogue with all the information retrieved about the data files found in the archive.