Re: Tiff Metadata reader?

[Guenter Waibel]

Title: RE: Tiff Metadata reader?

I'm extremely interested in this topic as well, so please respond to the list if you have any brilliant insight on the matter! The only other suggestion I can make is that I do remember that Norbert Lossau made reference to a tiff reader in a sidebar of Oya/Rieger Moving Theory into Practice, RLG 2000. Can't remember the details, and don't have the book on me to verify, but maybe somebody else on the list does?

We just recently sat down with the manufacturer of our digital cameraback (BetterLight) to help us gather better / more extensive metadata, and they seemed amenable to our suggestions. The idea was to have the capture software retain more metadata than it does right now, and maybe transport it by writing it to fileheader lines not in use yet. This strategy would also rely on having software which can get the entirety of that information out of the fileheader and into a database. Especially with the advent of the new NISO Technical Metadata for Still Images standard, I hope we'll see more manufactures pay attention to metadata capture. One can always dream, right?

Best,

Guenter

At 3:42 PM -0500 5/20/2002, Chuck Patch wrote:

Thanks for the various suggestions -- I'm still looking though; all of the sites that I've been directed to, or found, that cater to PC/Wintel-oriented users offer only source code libraries, usually in C++, that I could use to build tiff manipulating software. Alas, that's a bit beyond me.

I should explain that what I'm trying to do is trace the progress of metadata keyed-in through a couple of different versions of Photoshop, through the tiff files output from them, into a program called Portfolio Extensis, which we are using as a temporary holding-bin for our digitized images. Extensis is a specialized database app that will read tiff headers into a record structure, including the custom metadata that one can create in Photoshop and export to a tiff header. Unfortunately, we're having some trouble finding the data in the tiff files and mapping it consistently to the same fields in Extensis. I figured that if I could just read the header on the tiff file, I would have a better idea of what's going on.

Chuck

-----Original Message-----
From: Guenter Waibel [mailto:guen...@uclink4.berkeley.edu]
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 3:29 PM
To: mcn-l@mcn.edu
Subject: RE: Tiff Metadata reader?

If you're on a Mac and looking for a pretty cheap & diry solution
which will give you access to some, but not all tiff file header
fields, check out iViewMultimediaPro at
http://www.iview-multimedia.com/. This nifty little asset management
program also lets you export the information of your choice to
tab-delimited text so it can be imported into another database
system. It doesn't let you look at the actual tagging of the image
file, though, if that's the prime concern - only at the content.

Best,
Guenter

>Chuck,
>
>Maybe this link is usefull:
>
>http://picturemetadata.sourceforge.net/
>
>Bert
>
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>       -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
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>       Verzonden: ma 20-5-2002 19:28
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>       Does anyone know of a simple (preferably free) tiff file
>reader that shows the metadata tags? I don't even care if I can't
>see the image -- I'd just like to be able to read-out the metadata
>and see how it's tagged.
>
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