JHOVE2 (www.jhove2.org) will work as well.
Sheila
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From: Code for Libraries [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jon Stroop [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 9:23 AM
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] TIFF Metadata to XML?
Edward,
JHOVE (1) should be able to do this, and I believe you can pass the
included shell script a directory and have it extract data for
everything it finds and can parse inside.
-Jon
On 07/18/2011 09:18 AM, Edward M. Corrado wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Before I re-invent the wheel or try many different programs, does
> anyone have a suggestion on a good way to extract embedded Metadata
> added by cameras and (more importantly) photo-editing programs such as
> Photoshop from TIFF files and save it as as XML? I have> 60k photos
> that have metadata including keywords, descriptions, creator, and
> other fields embedded in them and I need to extract the metadata so I
> can load them into our digital archive.
>
> Right now, after looking at a few tools and having done a number of
> Google searches and haven't found anything that seems to do what I
> want. As of now I am leaning towards extracting the metadata using
> exiv2 and creating a script (shell, perl, whatever) to put the fields
> I need into a pseudo-Dublin Core XML format. I say pseudo because I
> have a few fields that are not Dublin Core. I am assuming there is a
> better way. (Although part of me thinks it might be easier to do that
> then exporting to XML and using XSLT to transform the file since I
> might need to do a lot of cleanup of the data regardless.)
>
> Anyway, before I go any further, does anyone have any
> thoughts/ideas/suggestions?
>
> Edward
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