Interesting... would you mind giving me an example of the type of data you are referring to? Or perhaps an example use case / real world example?
Or would you have been able to get this information from FTP access logs?
Or could you have done it simply by checking if files existed?
I am building something like this for data scientists (currently being used in finance) and wonder if it wouldn't also have served your team well.
I'm not involved in this project anymore, so it's not a current conundrum for me, but we had this issue a few quarters ago.