Exiftool

Used commands

Prerequisites

CSV containing all the metadata. Format of the CSV should be like this:

SourceFile,XMP-dc:Identifier,XMP-dc:Title-nl,XMP-dc:Description-nl,XMP-dc:Coverage,XMP-dc:Rights-nl
/absolute/path/to/images,foto number,Title of your picture in Dutch,Description of your picture in Dutch,begin and end date, right holders and license in Dutch

XMP supports multilangual description and title fields in DC. Add -en of -fr to Title and/or Description to add English or French titles and descriptioons (e.g. XMP-dc:Title-nl means that your title is in Dutch).

Example

Embed metadata

Use following command to embed the metadata in your pictures:

exiftool -csv=path/to/csv path/to/folder/images -overwrite_original

Write out the metadata of your pictures

You can write out the embedded metadata in a CSV file.

exiftool -csv /path/to/folder/images > wanted/path/of/file.csv

You can also only write out the embedded XMP metadata in an XML file.

exiftool -xmp -b /path/to/image/file > wanted/path/of/file.xml

Or, you can even only write out the DC metadata by using following command:

exiftool -xmp-dc:* /path/to/folder/or/file