DLF Fall Forum, 25-27 October 2004
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Leveraging Existing Technologies – Metadata Extraction Tools
§Community based
–JHOVE
•The JSTOR-Harvard Object Validation Environment
–National Library of New Zealand
•“Metadata Extract Tool”
§Industry based
–Eastman Kodak Picture Metadata Toolkit
–Adobe Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP)
These tools are doing the hard work of examining files, determining where metadata is lurking, and dragging it out into the open. While some work across a number of file formats, all of them work on TIFF files. These tools give you access to metadata that’s already there, meaning they leverage existing specifications. All of them have expressed an interest in sharing their tool.