[WEB4LIB] Retrospective Metadata Project

[Matt Theobald]

Deborah,

Check out Hiawatha Island Software. They've been working extensively with
several States to pull together large metadata environments.   They appear
to be the leader at least in that arena.

Not sure if they have the default document profile feature that is
desired.

Very interested in the outcome of your query.

-Matt

Debora Seys wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Thanks in advance for any help - I've been asked if there are any
> tools available that can help automate the process of adding metadata
> to existing html, pdf and ms-office type files.
>
> I'm aware of some automatic metadata tools but these seem to operate
> with the idea that one is creating a file at the time that you add the
> metadata.  What about a tool that has some scripts or processes that
> one can run against a set of existing files or a filesystem, adding a
> default set of metadata tags to all of them?
>
> Deb
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