Also, see FITS (http://code.google.com/p/fits/)

FITS is an open source java toolset we wrote that wraps JHOVE, ExifTool,
and several other format analysis tools and produces a single XML output
stream. It also includes a crosswalk to MIX XML as an optional output.

Date:    Mon, 18 Jul 2011 10:40:04 -0400
From:    "Edward M. Corrado" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: TIFF Metadata to XML?

Thanks for all the suggestions. I know have multiple ways to get an XML
file... now I only need to figure out which fields map to what.

Edward

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Dave Rice <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Try exiftool with the -X flag to get RDF XML output.
> Dave Rice
> avpreserve.com
>
> On Jul 18, 2011, at 9:18 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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