Re: [CODE4LIB] tools for massaging metadata

2009-07-09 Thread Jon Gorman
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

Re: [CODE4LIB] tools for massaging metadata

2009-07-09 Thread Joe Atzberger
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

Re: [CODE4LIB] tools for massaging metadata

2009-07-09 Thread Joe Hourcle
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