Copying legacy namespace information to IPTC fields

[athiemann]

Hi Phil,

I am new to EXIF Tool and I have a rather specific need that I'm hoping your tool can accomplish. 
I have metadata in legacy and proprietary namespaces like http://ns.imf.org/legacy/subj_keyword
that I need to move to http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/subject.
Might EXIF Tool be able to accompish this?  And of course I have no idea where to begin. 

Any assistance you could render would be most appreciated.  Thanks.

-Al

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Al,

Sure, ExifTool can do this.

ExifTool has the ability to read proprietary tags from XMP, then you use the redirection feature of the -tagsFromFile option to copy these to standard XMP tags.  See the application documentation for details, or search this forum for lots of examples.

The command may look something like this:

exiftool "-xmp:SOMETAG<PROPRIETARYTAG1" "-xmp:ANOTHERTAG<PROPRIETARYTAG2" ... FILE

where FILE is one or more file and/or directory names.

- Phil