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 issues there. That's off the top of my head. Jon On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Avila, Regina L.<regina.av...@nist.gov> 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 Parserat, Notepad++, A Better File Rename and a few others. > Any other gems I should know? > > Thanks. > > > _______________________________________ > Regina Avila > Librarian > National Institute of Standards and Technology > 301-975-3575 > regina.av...@nist.gov<mailto:regina.av...@nist.gov> >