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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