There are various options at http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/metafiles.html You might need to look at the IPTC>XMP mapping, since I think there could useful metadata in IPTC that isn't necessarily reflected in the embedded XMP data. But just tried the basic non-IPTC mapping option exiftool myfile.jpg -o test.xmp and got something like this, which seems like it might be useful: <?xpacket begin='' id='W5M0MpCehiHzreSzNTczkc9d'?> <x:xmpmeta xmlns:x='adobe:ns:meta/' x:xmptk='Image::ExifTool 7.42'> <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf='http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#'> <rdf:Description rdf:about='' xmlns:exif='http://ns.adobe.com/exif/1.0/'> <exif:ColorSpace>1</exif:ColorSpace> <exif:CompressedBitsPerPixel>4/1</exif:CompressedBitsPerPixel> <exif:Contrast>0</exif:Contrast> <exif:CustomRendered>0</exif:CustomRendered> <exif:DateTimeOriginal>2012-02-15T11:29:21-05:00</exif:DateTimeOriginal> <exif:ExifVersion>0221</exif:ExifVersion> <exif:ExposureBiasValue>0/1</exif:ExposureBiasValue> <exif:ExposureMode>0</exif:ExposureMode> <exif:ExposureProgram>2</exif:ExposureProgram> <exif:ExposureTime>1/8</exif:ExposureTime> <exif:FNumber>27/10</exif:FNumber> <exif:FileSource>3</exif:FileSource> <exif:FlashpixVersion>0100</exif:FlashpixVersion> <exif:FocalLength>47/10</exif:FocalLength> <exif:ISOSpeedRatings> <rdf:Seq> <rdf:li>400</rdf:li> </rdf:Seq> </exif:ISOSpeedRatings> <exif:LightSource>0</exif:LightSource> <exif:MaxApertureValue>24361/8200</exif:MaxApertureValue> <exif:MeteringMode>5</exif:MeteringMode> <exif:PixelXDimension>4320</exif:PixelXDimension> <exif:PixelYDimension>3240</exif:PixelYDimension> <exif:Saturation>0</exif:Saturation> <exif:SceneCaptureType>0</exif:SceneCaptureType> <exif:SceneType>1</exif:SceneType> <exif:Sharpness>0</exif:Sharpness> <exif:WhiteBalance>0</exif:WhiteBalance> </rdf:Description> <rdf:Description rdf:about='' xmlns:tiff='http://ns.adobe.com/tiff/1.0/'> <tiff:BitsPerSample> <rdf:Seq> <rdf:li>8</rdf:li> </rdf:Seq> </tiff:BitsPerSample> <tiff:Compression>6</tiff:Compression> <tiff:ImageDescription> <rdf:Alt> <rdf:li xml:lang='x-default'> </rdf:li> </rdf:Alt> </tiff:ImageDescription> <tiff:ImageLength>4320</tiff:ImageLength> <tiff:ImageWidth>3240</tiff:ImageWidth> <tiff:Make>SONY</tiff:Make> <tiff:Model>DSC-W350</tiff:Model> <tiff:Orientation>1</tiff:Orientation> <tiff:ResolutionUnit>2</tiff:ResolutionUnit> <tiff:XResolution>72/1</tiff:XResolution> <tiff:YCbCrPositioning>2</tiff:YCbCrPositioning> <tiff:YCbCrSubSampling>2 1</tiff:YCbCrSubSampling> <tiff:YResolution>72/1</tiff:YResolution> </rdf:Description> <rdf:Description rdf:about='' xmlns:xmp='http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/'> <xmp:CreateDate>2012-02-15T11:29:21-05:00</xmp:CreateDate> <xmp:ModifyDate>2012-02-15T11:29:21-05:00</xmp:ModifyDate> </rdf:Description> </rdf:RDF> </x:xmpmeta> <?xpacket end='w'?> __________ David Dwiggins Systems Librarian/Archivist, Historic New England 141 Cambridge Street, Boston, MA 02114 (617) 994-5948 [log in to unmask] http://www.historicnewengland.org >>> "Medina-Smith, Andrea" <[log in to unmask]> 1/10/2013 12:32 PM >>> 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 _______________________________________________________________________________ Andrea Medina-Smith Metadata Librarian NIST Gaithersburg [log in to unmask] 301-975-2592 Be Green! Think before you print this email. -----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of [log in to unmask] Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 12:02 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] XMP Metadata to tab-delemited file 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 __________ David Dwiggins Systems Librarian/Archivist, Historic New England 141 Cambridge Street, Boston, MA 02114 (617) 994-5948 [log in to unmask] http://www.historicnewengland.org >>> "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 _______________________________________________________________________________ Andrea Medina-Smith Metadata Librarian NIST Gaithersburg [log in to unmask] 301-975-2592 Be Green! Think before you print this email.