Creating a Category Definition File

Prerequisite: Creating a Configuration Project

A Category Definition File is a file type used to define a category or alert within the OSINT Suite. This type of file should be created under the Category Matching folder that can be found within a Configuration Project. Once a Configuration Project is created, two different sub-folders appear within the Category Matching folder:

Active Categories sub-folder: contains the active categories that can be currently selected in the category selector shown in the Category Browser view.
Available Categories sub-folder: contains other category definition files that can be used later as active categories. The categories defined under this sub-folder are not available in the category selector of the Category Browser view.

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To create a Category Definition File do the following:

Right click on one of the sub-folders mentioned above (Active Categories or Available Categories) and click on New > Category Definition File. Choose a file name and click on Finish.

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The Category Definition File editor is automatically opened showing the empty content of the new file. The file extension used for Category Definition files is adf (alert definition file), as shown in the workspace navigator:
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The OSINT Suite also allows using category definition files generated by the official EMM Alert Editor (http://emm.jrc.it/AlertEditor/). Files generated by the EMM Alert Editor are basically XML files that conform the XML Schema Definition (XSD) provided by the EMM team to define categories or alerts. The alert XSD is available at http://emm.jrc.org/alert.xsd

To know how to define categories or alerts within a specific category definition file see Defining categories or alerts.