Re: [CODE4LIB] tools for massaging metadata
What do you mean by metadata massaging? Just text editing? What format is this metadata in? Sorry, you're so broad here I'm not sure where to start. Oxygen, xml spy, emacs, vi for editing. Countless of command line tools (find, awk, xargs, rename, etc). Iconv for encoding conversions and issues there. That's off the top of my head. Jon On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Avila, Regina L.regina.av...@nist.gov wrote: Can anybody share some good tools for massaging metadata? For anything from file renaming to cleaning ASCII characters to various formulas? I know Excel does a lot of things but I'm looking for other useful software to consider. I'm familiar with Parserat, Notepad++, A Better File Rename and a few others. Any other gems I should know? Thanks. ___ Regina Avila Librarian National Institute of Standards and Technology 301-975-3575 regina.av...@nist.govmailto:regina.av...@nist.gov
Re: [CODE4LIB] tools for massaging metadata
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Avila, Regina L. regina.av...@nist.govwrote: Can anybody share some good tools for massaging metadata? For anything from file renaming to cleaning ASCII characters to various formulas? I know Excel does a lot of things but I'm looking for other useful software to consider. I'm familiar with Parserat, Notepad++, A Better File Rename and a few others. Any other gems I should know? Since I work mostly with MARC records: - MarcEdit - MARC::Record, MARC::Lint - and the more general: sed, egrep, etc. A validator for your given data format is usually important to keeping your data compliant. --Joe
Re: [CODE4LIB] tools for massaging metadata
On Thu, 9 Jul 2009, Avila, Regina L. wrote: Can anybody share some good tools for massaging metadata? For anything from file renaming to cleaning ASCII characters to various formulas? I know Excel does a lot of things but I'm looking for other useful software to consider. I'm familiar with Parserat, Notepad++, A Better File Rename and a few others. Any other gems I should know? What formats are you dealing with, and what platform are you on? For text files on the Mac, I've been a long-term BBEdit user, but any text editor that's scriptable and supports regex replace is useful. (you could always use perl or sed awk if you wanted to automate it). If you're working with binary data, you might need something to convert it to something that you can work with in other tools. -Joe
