If you want everything in that RDF, you're probably wanting to extract the XMP data. Have a look at exiv2: http://www.exiv2.org/ Basically: > exiv2 -px <your_image>.tif will dump what you want to stdout. -Jon -- Jon Stroop Digital Initiatives Programmer/Analyst Princeton University Library On 11/19/2012 04:31 PM, Kyle Banerjee wrote: > Howdy all, > > I need to extract all the metadata from a few thousand images on a network > drive and put it into spreadsheet. Since the files are huge (each is > 100MB+) and my connection isn't that fast, I strongly prefer to not move > them before working on them -- i.e. I'm using cygwin and/or windows. > > Just eyeballing these things, I see the headers contain everything I need > in purty rdf. What's the best way to extract this? I thought tiffinfo would > do the trick, but it's just giving me technical info. Of course I can just > parse the files with perl but I'm thinking there just has to be a slicker > way to do this. What's my best option? Thanks, > > kyle