New release of Metadata Extraction Tool from the National Library of New Zealand
Posted on August 6th, 2007 by David
The National Library of New Zealand has released version 3.2 of its Metadata Extraction Tool as open-source software. According to the SourceForge project page, the tool was designed to “programmatically extract preservation metadata from a range of file formats like PDF documents, image files, sound files Microsoft office documents, and many others,” then output the metadata in an XML format for further processing.
Source: National Library of New Zealand media release, 02007 07 18
