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## CAR indexing from Ben Lau, Starling Lab
Another issue with CAR files is that they are as diverse as the data usecases and ergonomics of the IPFS ecosystem:
while Filecoin uploading returns a CAR file, it sidesteps the UnixFS and thus most CAR tooling cannot reconstruct or navigate its contents.
As these big-data archive files are not introspectable with UnixFS tools, Lau's team is open-sourcing some indexing tools they created internally which create a _private index_ of Filecoin uploads, rounding out a historic tooling/interop gap in the ecosystem.
Another issue with CAR files is that they are as diverse as the data usecases and ergonomics of the IPFS ecosystem:
while Filecoin uploading returns a CAR file, it sidesteps the UnixFS and thus most CAR tooling cannot reconstruct or
navigate its contents. As these big-data archive files are not introspectable with UnixFS tools, Lau's team is open-sourcing
some indexing tools they created internally which create a _private index_ of Filecoin uploads, rounding out a historic
tooling/interop gap in the ecosystem.
Ben and team at [Starling Lab](https://starlinglab.org/) are developing a browser-based tool to help
locate the content of [Filecoin CAR archives](https://spec.filecoin.io/systems/filecoin_files/piece/), without relying on public indexing services. It's definitely going to
locate the content of [Filecoin CAR archives](https://spec.filecoin.io/systems/filecoin_files/piece/), without relying on
public indexing services. This is a stepping stone to more general solutions for indexing. It's definitely going to
boost that part of the ecosystem!
And beyond that, stay tuned: we will have more annoucements coming.