Exiftool [1] and trusty ImageMagick [2] will work. With ImageMagick it is as easy as:
convert image.tiff image.xmp Members of the Visual Resources Association (VRA) have been working on/with embedded metadata for a few years now. There may be something more to glean from the working group's wiki [3]. Cordially, Kevin [1] http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/ [2] http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php [3] http://metadatadeluxe.pbworks.com/w/page/20792238/FrontPage > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of > Edward M. Corrado > Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 9:18 AM > To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU > Subject: [CODE4LIB] TIFF Metadata to XML? > > 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
