On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Avila, Regina L. <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > Can anybody share some good tools for massaging metadata? For anything from > file renaming to cleaning ASCII characters to various formulas? I know > Excel does a lot of things but I'm looking for other useful software to > consider. I'm familiar with Parserat, Notepad++, A Better File Rename and a > few others. Any other gems I should know? Since I work mostly with MARC records: - MarcEdit - MARC::Record, MARC::Lint - and the more general: sed, egrep, etc. A validator for your given data format is usually important to keeping your data compliant. --Joe