diff --git a/client/src/models/AssetModel.ts b/client/src/models/AssetModel.ts
index 43b3655..5dd6023 100644
--- a/client/src/models/AssetModel.ts
+++ b/client/src/models/AssetModel.ts
@@ -8,14 +8,10 @@ const AssetModel = {
         name: null,
         description: null,
         dateCreated: null,
-        size: null,
         author: null,
         type: '',
         license: null,
         copyrightHolder: null,
-        encoding: null,
-        compression: null,
-        contentType: null,
         workExample: null,
         files: [],
         categories: [],
diff --git a/client/src/routes/Details/index.tsx b/client/src/routes/Details/index.tsx
index 39700ba..6d9251a 100644
--- a/client/src/routes/Details/index.tsx
+++ b/client/src/routes/Details/index.tsx
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 import React, { Component } from 'react'
 import { Logger } from '@oceanprotocol/squid'
-import queryString from 'query-string'
 import Route from '../../components/templates/Route'
 import Spinner from '../../components/atoms/Spinner'
 import { User } from '../../context/User'
@@ -37,8 +36,14 @@ export default class Details extends Component<DetailsProps, DetailsState> {
                 accessService.serviceDefinitionId,
                 account[0]
             )
-            const folder = ""
-            const path = await this.context.ocean.assets.consume(agreementId, ddo.id, accessService.serviceDefinitionId, account[0], folder)
+            const folder = ''
+            const path = await this.context.ocean.assets.consume(
+                agreementId,
+                ddo.id,
+                accessService.serviceDefinitionId,
+                account[0],
+                folder
+            )
             Logger.log('path', path)
         } catch (e) {
             Logger.log('error', e)
diff --git a/client/src/routes/Publish/Files/Item.tsx b/client/src/routes/Publish/Files/Item.tsx
index 2fb57da..47afc96 100644
--- a/client/src/routes/Publish/Files/Item.tsx
+++ b/client/src/routes/Publish/Files/Item.tsx
@@ -8,10 +8,15 @@ const Item = ({ item, removeItem }: { item: any; removeItem: any }) => (
         <div className={styles.details}>
             <span>url: {item.found ? 'confirmed' : 'unconfirmed'}</span>
             <span>
-                size:
-                {item.found && item.size ? filesize(item.size) : 'unknown'}
+                {item.found && item.contentLength
+                    ? filesize(item.contentLength)
+                    : 'unknown size'}
+            </span>
+            <span>
+                {item.found && item.contentType
+                    ? item.contentType
+                    : 'unknown type'}
             </span>
-            <span>type: {item.found && item.type ? item.type : 'unknown'}</span>
         </div>
         <button
             type="button"
diff --git a/client/src/routes/Publish/Files/index.tsx b/client/src/routes/Publish/Files/index.tsx
index 977c4be..eb33478 100644
--- a/client/src/routes/Publish/Files/index.tsx
+++ b/client/src/routes/Publish/Files/index.tsx
@@ -8,8 +8,19 @@ import styles from './index.module.scss'
 
 import { serviceHost, servicePort, serviceScheme } from '../../../config'
 
+interface File {
+    url: string
+    checksum?: string
+    checksumType?: string
+    contentLength?: string
+    contentType?: string
+    resourceId?: string
+    encoding?: string
+    compression?: string
+}
+
 interface FilesProps {
-    files: any[]
+    files: File[]
     placeholder: string
     help?: string
     name: string
@@ -20,6 +31,24 @@ interface FilesStates {
     isFormShown: boolean
 }
 
+const getFileCompression = async (contentType: string) => {
+    // TODO: add all the possible archive & compression MIME types
+    if (
+        contentType === 'application/zip' ||
+        contentType === 'application/gzip' ||
+        contentType === 'application/x-lzma' ||
+        contentType === 'application/x-xz' ||
+        contentType === 'application/x-tar' ||
+        contentType === 'application/x-bzip2' ||
+        contentType === 'application/x-7z-compressed'
+    ) {
+        const contentTypeSplit = contentType.split('/')
+        return contentTypeSplit[1]
+    } else {
+        return 'none'
+    }
+}
+
 export default class Files extends PureComponent<FilesProps, FilesStates> {
     public state: FilesStates = {
         isFormShown: false
@@ -46,8 +75,9 @@ export default class Files extends PureComponent<FilesProps, FilesStates> {
                 }
             )
             res = await response.json()
-            file.size = res.result.contentLength
-            file.type = res.result.contentType
+            file.contentLength = res.result.contentLength
+            file.contentType = res.result.contentType
+            file.compression = await getFileCompression(file.contentType)
             file.found = res.result.found
         } catch (error) {
             // error
diff --git a/client/src/routes/Publish/index.tsx b/client/src/routes/Publish/index.tsx
index 5c558de..9952dcf 100644
--- a/client/src/routes/Publish/index.tsx
+++ b/client/src/routes/Publish/index.tsx
@@ -258,10 +258,6 @@ class Publish extends Component<{}, PublishState> {
                 price: this.state.price,
                 type: this.state.type,
                 categories: [this.state.categories],
-                size: '',
-                encoding: '',
-                compression: undefined,
-                contentType: '',
                 workExample: undefined,
                 inLanguage: undefined,
                 tags: ''