Hi, Andrea,


XMP is natively an RDF-based format, so getting out XML isn't hard at all.
You have a couple of XML-based options with exiftool:

exiftool -X foo.jpg # prints the metadata in exiftool's own RDF/XML schema
to stdout
exiftool -tagsfromfile foo.jpg -o foo.xmp # writes the metadata in an XMP
XML file
Exiftool -tagsfromfile foo.jpg -o -.xmp # writes the metadata in XMP XML
to stdout; only works in recentish versions of exiftool

exiftool also has a CSV output that might be helpful to you; check
`exiftool --help` for details on how that works.

Misty

On 13-01-10 11:32 AM, "Medina-Smith, Andrea"
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>I can get the data out, and I can even get a single file created w/ all
>the metadata for all the images in the collection. It's just that it is
>unstructured and not useful as such. Anything xml would also be useful,
>but I haven't found a product that does that.
>
>I was really trying not to just call you up ;)
>
>-a 
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>ResourceSpace does this internally to extract metadata. I think it's as
>simple as 
> 
>exiftool -t -s imagefile.tif  metadatafile.tab
> 
>Does this do what you want?
> 
>-DD
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>>>> "Medina-Smith, Andrea" <[log in to unmask]> 1/10/2013 10:57
>>>>AM >>>
>Hello,
>
>I need to take xmp metadata that is imbedded in tif images and pull it
>out into a tab delimited text file for ingest into our digital repository
>(CONTENTdm). Has anyone done this using exiftool or the like?
>
>Thanks,
>A
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