Metadata Extraction and Export

• AbiWord - free, open source word processing program, with considerable support for locating and extracting metadata from various office file formats
  http://www.abisource.com/
  http://www.abisource.com/download/plugins.phtml
• Complex Archive Ingest for Repository Objects (CAIRO), University of Oxford. - project to "develop a tool for ingesting complex collections of born-digital materials, with basic descriptive, preservation and relationship metadata, into a preservation repository", which documented many existing tools
  http://cairo.paradigm.ac.uk/
• DirPrinting – simple program for printing or exporting directory structures
  http://www.majusoft.de/DirPrinting/index_en.htm
• Document Detective (ManTech)
  http://www.stg.srs.com/eds/docdet/
• EXIF: Canon type1 Makernotes
  http://gvsoft.homedns.org/exif/makernote-canon-type1.html
• Exiv2 – "provides fast and easy read and write access to the Exif, IPTC and XMP metadata of images in various formats"
  http://www.exiv2.org
• Forensics Wiki – Document Metadata Extraction
  http://www.forensicswiki.org/wiki/Tools:Document_Metadata_Extraction
• Formal metadata: information and software - U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
  http://geology.usgs.gov/tools/metadata/
• Get Drive Info 2 (National Library of Australia) – "Win32 program that examines the optical and removable media drives currently mounted on a computer, and returns information about those devices"
  http://getdriveinfo2.sourceforge.net/
• Image-ExifTool (Phil Harvey) - "platform-independent Perl library plus a command-line application for reading, writing and editing meta information in image, audio and video files"
  http://search.cpan.org/dist/Image-ExifTool/
  http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/
• JabRef - XMP metadata support
  http://jabref.sourceforge.net/help/XMPHelp.php
• Karen’s Directory Printer – for printing and exporting directory structures and associated attributes (more features than DirPrinting above)
  http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptdirprn.asp
• kopal Library for Retrieval and Ingest (koLibRI) - library of Java tools that "generates a XML file according to the METS schema out of the metadata, provided with the object to archive or generated by JHOVE, bundles it into an archive file together with the object (.zip or .tar) and delivers this Submission Archiving Package (SIP) to the DIAS system"
  http://kopal.langzeitarchivierung.de/index_koLibRI.php.en
• libextractor (GNU) – "library used to extract meta-data from files of arbitrary type" with associated command-line extract tool
  http://gnunet.org/libextractor/
• Metadata Extraction Tool (National Library of New Zealand)
  http://meta-extractor.sourceforge.net/
  http://www.natlib.govt.nz/about-us/current-initiatives/metadata-extraction-tool
• Metadata System Tools - Metadata Architecture and Application Team (MAAT)
  http://www.sinica.edu.tw/~metadata/tool/tool-eng-frame.html
• METAe - Meta Data Engine - software to identify the structure and layout of digitized page images and generate resulting XML files
  http://meta-e.aib.uni-linz.ac.at/
• mod_oai - module to add Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) support to an Apache web server
  http://www.modoai.org/
• MP3::Tag - Perl module for reading tags of MP3 audio files
  http://search.cpan.org/~ilyaz/MP3-Tag-1.10/lib/MP3/Tag.pm
• PANIC (Preservation Web Service Architecture for New Media and Interactive Collections) - MAENAD (Multimedia Access across Enterprises, Networks And Domains) Group at DSTC
  http://metadata.net/panic/Results.htm
• Pdfinfo – for extracting and viewing metadata from PDF files, part of a package called  xpdf, for viewing, converting and extracting PDF content
  http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/
• stat (Unix command) - retrieves filesystem metadata associated with files
• Tree (DOS command) – displays directories and their contents, which can be piped into a text file for use elsewhere
  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771130.aspx
• Visual C++ (Microsoft) - can be used to extract properties from Microsoft Office documents
  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q186898