Re: [CODE4LIB] Automated Embedded Metadata Extraction in Photographs: Possible or Pipedream?

2013-12-19 Thread Jay Gattuso
] Automated Embedded Metadata Extraction in Photographs: Possible or Pipedream? Hi all, I'm wondering if there is a systematic method that can extract metadata embedded in digital photographs and then ingest that metadata into a CMS and relate them to their corresponding images. We currently use

Re: [CODE4LIB] Automated Embedded Metadata Extraction in Photographs: Possible or Pipedream?

2013-12-19 Thread Simon Spero
Alfresco uses apache tika to extract exif metadata from images. The tika plugin to support is on github at https://github.com/Alfresco/tika-exiftool . oh. On Dec 17, 2013 4:55 PM, Edward Summers e...@pobox.com wrote: I remember hearing somewhere that ExifTool is pretty good for extracting

Re: [CODE4LIB] Automated Embedded Metadata Extraction in Photographs: Possible or Pipedream?

2013-12-19 Thread Richard Sarvas
Summers Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 4:54 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Automated Embedded Metadata Extraction in Photographs: Possible or Pipedream? I remember hearing somewhere that ExifTool is pretty good for extracting image metadata. edsu--

Re: [CODE4LIB] Automated Embedded Metadata Extraction in Photographs: Possible or Pipedream?

2013-12-19 Thread Wilhelmina Randtke
Piwigo does this, so you can look at the source code to see how. -Wilhelmina Randtke On Dec 17, 2013 3:37 PM, Swauger,Shea shea.swau...@colostate.edu wrote: Hi all, I'm wondering if there is a systematic method that can extract metadata embedded in digital photographs and then ingest that

[CODE4LIB] Automated Embedded Metadata Extraction in Photographs: Possible or Pipedream?

2013-12-17 Thread Swauger,Shea
Hi all, I'm wondering if there is a systematic method that can extract metadata embedded in digital photographs and then ingest that metadata into a CMS and relate them to their corresponding images. We currently use DigiTool, if that makes a difference. Thanks! Shea Swauger Data Management

Re: [CODE4LIB] Automated Embedded Metadata Extraction in Photographs: Possible or Pipedream?

2013-12-17 Thread Kyle Banerjee
Exiftool is what you need. Easy to use and works on any platform. kyle On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Swauger,Shea shea.swau...@colostate.eduwrote: Hi all, I'm wondering if there is a systematic method that can extract metadata embedded in digital photographs and then ingest that

Re: [CODE4LIB] Automated Embedded Metadata Extraction in Photographs: Possible or Pipedream?

2013-12-17 Thread Medina-Smith, Andrea
[mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Kyle Banerjee Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 4:45 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Automated Embedded Metadata Extraction in Photographs: Possible or Pipedream? Exiftool is what you need. Easy to use and works on any platform. kyle

Re: [CODE4LIB] Automated Embedded Metadata Extraction in Photographs: Possible or Pipedream?

2013-12-17 Thread Monica Rivero
Hi Shea, Well, one option you might explore is extracting metadata from images using exiftool (http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/) to a CSV or TXT file and then convert this file to what ever tool or file format (xml) you use for batch import to your CMS. So semi-automated. We

Re: [CODE4LIB] Automated Embedded Metadata Extraction in Photographs: Possible or Pipedream?

2013-12-17 Thread Roy Tennant
I use EXIFTool to extract the EXIF metadata from images: http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/ I do this dynamically for all of the 8,000+ photos on FreeLargePhotos.com. Here is an example of the text output: http://freelargephotos.com/photos/003805/exif.txt From there, you could parse

Re: [CODE4LIB] Automated Embedded Metadata Extraction in Photographs: Possible or Pipedream?

2013-12-17 Thread Edward M. Corrado
Hi, It is possible, at least the extraction part. I don;t know enough about Digitool to know the deposit part. We wrote a series of shell scripts, using exiftool (as I see others are suggesting). The output is then put through a number of sed commands and outputs a file that can be deposited into

Re: [CODE4LIB] Automated Embedded Metadata Extraction in Photographs: Possible or Pipedream?

2013-12-17 Thread Patrick Murray-John
The extraction and ingestion seem like two different coins. Lots of tools can extract. exiftool, or imagemagick, or whatever can extract the data. Question then is how and where to insert it into the system you are using. So, not a pipedream. Indeed extraction is very possible. The harder

Re: [CODE4LIB] Automated Embedded Metadata Extraction in Photographs: Possible or Pipedream?

2013-12-17 Thread Edward Summers
I remember hearing somewhere that ExifTool is pretty good for extracting image metadata. edsu--