Hi Deborah, I've routinely used Extensis Portfolio to export data and import it into Access. You can't pull directly from the files into a CSV or tab-delim file. Instead you import the data into the Portfolio database. The advantage here is that you can also tweak that data, embed it back into the files if you want, as well as export. I've done this in order to merge image file data with data extracted from our Collections Management System in preparation for uploading files and data to a state digital library.
Chuck Patch On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Deborah Wythe <deborahwythe at hotmail.com> wrote: > > Has anyone come across a file management utility that will generate a tab > (or comma) delimited text file of file metadata from file storage? > > For example: > filename ^t date ^t size ^t width ^t height ^t format > > PhotoShop Bridge and other utilities I've found allow you to export a > fixed-width text file, but it's not consistent enough to allow easy export > into Excel or Access (and then into DAMS) without some tweaking. I'm looking > for quick, easy and smooth (creating metadata takes enough steps already!). > > Thanks, > Deborah Wythe > Brooklyn Museum > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Make every e-mail and IM count. Join the i'm Initiative from Microsoft. > http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Join/Default.aspx?source=EML_WL_ MakeCount > _______________________________________________ > You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer > Network (http://www.mcn.edu) > > To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu > > To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: > http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l >
