Back end functionality for ingest of "special" files

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Author Name: Leonid Andreev (@landreev)
Original Redmine Issue: 3524, https://redmine.hmdc.harvard.edu/issues/3524
Original Date: 2014-02-03
Original Assignee: Kevin Condon

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For 4.0alpha1 this will include:

1. support for "subsettable" (tabular) data files; (possibly, just one select flavor of subsettable files - for ex., Stata or R)
2. FITS files.

[eaquigley]

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Original Redmine Comment
Author Name: Gustavo Durand (@scolapasta)
Original Date: 2014-03-14T19:38:29Z

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This is done as a high level - open up any issues as new tickets.

[eaquigley]

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Original Redmine Comment
Author Name: Kevin Condon (@kcondon)
Original Date: 2014-04-02T17:50:34Z

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Tested as part of weekly milestones.

Special files are supported. Some issues remain and there exists separate tickets.

Closing ticket