DLFMetadataAssessment · agoslen · Sep 16, 2026 · Aug 31, 2026 · Sep 1, 2026 · Sep 1, 2026
diff --git a/_includes/tools-search.html b/_includes/tools-search.html
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
       <label for="toolCategories" class="sr-only">Select a tool category:</label>
       <select id="toolCategories" class="select-filter">
         <option value="">All categories</option>
-        {% assign categories = site.tools | map: "category_broad" | sort | uniq %}
+        {% assign categories = site.tools | map: "category" | sort | uniq %}
         {% for category in categories %}
           <option value="{{ category }}">{{ category }}</option>
         {% endfor %}

diff --git a/_layouts/tool.html b/_layouts/tool.html
@@ -13,11 +13,9 @@
   <dd>{{ page.creator }}</dd>
   <dt>Type</dt>
   <dd>{{ page.type }}</dd>
-  <dt>Task Categories (broad)</dt>
-  <dd>{{ page.category_broad | join: "; " }}</dd>
-  <dt>Task Categories - broad (Informal)</dt>
-  <dd>{{ page.category_broad_informal | join: "; " }}</dd>
-  <dt>Use Case(s) - narrow</dt>
+  <dt>Task Categories</dt>
+  <dd>{{ page.category | join: "; " }}</dd>
+  <dt>Use Case(s)</dt>
   <dd>{{ page.use_case }}</dd>
   <dt>Interface</dt>
   <dd>{{ page.interface }}</dd>

diff --git a/_tools/01.html b/_tools/01.html
@@ -6,13 +6,11 @@
 source_code: https://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Download.php
 creator: TGRMN Software
 type: Standalone tool
-category_broad:
+category:
   - Editing
   - Transformation
-category_broad_informal:
-  - Transform technical metadata
-  - Embedded metadata
-use_case: Rename files according to various criteria, including Regular Expressions and from CSV; Rename photos using EXIF metadata
+  - Extraction/Embedding
+use_case: Rename files according to various criteria, including Regular Expressions and from CSV. Rename photos using EXIF metadata. Transform technical metadata, embedded metadata.
 interface: GUI
 dependencies: Windows
 open_source_proprietary: Proprietary

diff --git a/_tools/02.html b/_tools/02.html
@@ -6,13 +6,10 @@
 source_code: https://exiftool.org/install.html
 creator: Phil Harvey
 type: Standalone tool; Programming Language or Library
-category_broad:
+category:
   - Creation
   - Editing
   - Extraction/Embedding
-category_broad_informal:
-  - Extract, edit, & create technical metadata
-  - Embedded metadata
 use_case: Read, and edit embedded metadata, including technical metadata, in digital image files with tags.
 interface: CLI; GUI
 dependencies: Windows, MacOS, Unix; Perl

diff --git a/_tools/03.html b/_tools/03.html
@@ -6,10 +6,8 @@
 source_code: https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo/Download
 creator: Media Area
 type: Standalone tool
-category_broad:
+category:
   - Extraction/Embedding
-category_broad_informal:
-  - Extract technical metadata
 use_case: Extract technical metadata from digital audio and video files
 interface: CLI; GUI
 dependencies: Windows, MacOS, Android, AppImage, Flatpak, Snap, Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Raspbian, Red Hat, CentOS, Fedora, OpenSuse, Suse, Mandriva, Solaris, Mageia, ArchLinux, Gentoo Linux, Manjaro, PCLinuxOS, Slackware Linux, FreeBSD, AWS Lambda, JavaScript Module
@@ -18,5 +16,5 @@
 related_tools: N/A
 metadata_standard: PBCore, EBUCore, Framework for Interoperable Media Services (FIMS)
 file_format: Various
-resources: "<p>Karim, S., He, H., Laghari, A. A., Memon, K. A., Khan, M., & Magsi, A. H. (2020). The evaluation video quality in social clouds. <em>Entertainment Computing</em>, <em>35</em>. <a href='https://doi.org/10.1016/j.entcom.2020.100370'>https://doi.org/10.1016/j.entcom.2020.100370</a><p><p>Oyarce, P. V. (2018). MDQC 0.4: What’s New? How-to #3: Quick Guide to Exporting MediaInfo Files via GUI & CLI. <em>AVP</em>. <a href='https://www.weareavp.com/mdqc-0-4-whats-new-how-to-3-quick-guide-to-exporting-mediainfo-files-via-gui-cli/'>https://www.weareavp.com/mdqc-0-4-whats-new-how-to-3-quick-guide-to-exporting-mediainfo-files-via-gui-cli/</a></p>"
+resources: "<p>Karim, S., He, H., Laghari, A. A., Memon, K. A., Khan, M., & Magsi, A. H. (2020). The evaluation video quality in social clouds. <em>Entertainment Computing</em>, <em>35</em>. <a href='https://doi.org/10.1016/j.entcom.2020.100370'>https://doi.org/10.1016/j.entcom.2020.100370</a></p><p>Oyarce, P. V. (2018). MDQC 0.4: What’s New? How-to #3: Quick Guide to Exporting MediaInfo Files via GUI & CLI. <em>AVP</em>. <a href='https://www.weareavp.com/mdqc-0-4-whats-new-how-to-3-quick-guide-to-exporting-mediainfo-files-via-gui-cli/'>https://www.weareavp.com/mdqc-0-4-whats-new-how-to-3-quick-guide-to-exporting-mediainfo-files-via-gui-cli/</a></p>"
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diff --git a/_tools/04.html b/_tools/04.html
@@ -6,15 +6,11 @@
 source_code: https://www.adobe.com/products/bridge.html
 creator: Adobe
 type: Standalone tool
-category_broad:
+category:
   - Creation
   - Editing
   - Extraction/Embedding
-category_broad_informal:
-  - Embed metadata
-  - Extract metadata
-  - Batch/Bulk processing
-use_case: Embed metadata, bulk embed metadata via template tool
+use_case: Batch/bulk processing, embed metadata, bulk embed metadata via template tool
 interface: GUI
 dependencies: Windows and Mac
 open_source_proprietary: Proprietary

diff --git a/_tools/05.html b/_tools/05.html
@@ -6,13 +6,10 @@
 source_code: https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop.html
 creator: Adobe
 type: Standalone tool
-category_broad:
+category:
   - Creation
   - Editing
   - Extraction/Embedding
-category_broad_informal:
-  - Embed metadata
-  - Extract metadata
 use_case: Embed metadata
 interface: GUI
 dependencies: Windows and Mac

diff --git a/_tools/06.html b/_tools/06.html
@@ -6,14 +6,10 @@
 source_code: http://metadatadeluxe.pbworks.com/w/page/<wbr>108523528/VRA%20Bridge%20Metadata%20Tools
 creator: Embedded Metadata Working Group, Visual Resources Association
 type: Plug-in
-category_broad:
+category:
   - Creation
   - Editing
   - Extraction/Embedding
-category_broad_informal:
-  - Embedded metadata
-  - Create metadata
-  - Import/export metadata
 use_case: Embed metadata, create metadata, import/export metadata
 interface: GUI
 dependencies: Adobe Bridge CS4 and higher (including CC)

diff --git a/_tools/07.html b/_tools/07.html
@@ -6,17 +6,13 @@
 source_code: https://marcedit.reeset.net/downloads
 creator: Terry Reese
 type: Standalone tool
-category_broad:
+category:
   - Editing
   - Transformation
   - Validation
   - Retrieval
   - Analysis
-category_broad_informal:
-  - Transformation
-  - Validation
-  - Extraction
-  - Analysis
+  - Extraction/Embedding
 use_case: Batch editing/validating of MARC records, can also transform to and from various schema such as MODS and XML, translates Excel/Access to MARC and MARC as tab delimited text. Supports MARC characterset conversion, and can harvest OAI data and convert to MARC. Also works with regular expressions
 interface: GUI
 dependencies: Windows and Mac

diff --git a/_tools/08.html b/_tools/08.html
@@ -6,9 +6,7 @@
 source_code: https://onedrive.live.com/?authkey=%21AGJt6Y0thpYmZ6I&id=76B27A4817003059%2119773&cid=76B27A4817003059
 creator: Hyoungbae Lee
 type: Standalone tool
-category_broad:
-  - Transformation
-category_broad_informal:
+category:
   - Transformation
 use_case: Transforming data (romanizes Korean characters)
 interface: GUI

diff --git a/_tools/09.html b/_tools/09.html
@@ -6,13 +6,10 @@
 source_code: https://github.com/metafacture/metafacture-core
 creator: Community contributors
 type: Both standalone tool and Java library
-category_broad:
+category:
   - Editing
   - Transformation
-category_broad_informal:
-  - Bulk Editing
-  - Transformation
-use_case: Reading/writing data, Transforming data
+use_case: Bulk editing, reading/writing data, transforming data
 interface: CLI
 dependencies: Java 8 or later
 open_source_proprietary: Open Source

diff --git a/_tools/10.html b/_tools/10.html
@@ -6,15 +6,11 @@
 source_code: https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_editor/download_oxygenxml_editor.html
 creator: Syncro Soft SRL
 type: Standalone tool
-category_broad:
+category:
   - Creation
   - Editing
   - Transformation
   - Validation
-category_broad_informal:
-  - Transformation
-  - Validation
-  - Editing
 use_case: Editing and validating XML documents, as well as JSON, HTML, Markdown, Relax NG, XQuery. Also performs XSLT transformations.
 interface: GUI
 dependencies: Java 1.8+

diff --git a/_tools/11.html b/_tools/11.html
@@ -6,10 +6,9 @@
 source_code: https://github.com/vphill/metadata_breakers
 creator: Community contributors
 type: Programming language or library
-category_broad:
-  - Analysis
-category_broad_informal:
+category:
   - Analysis
+  - Transformation
 use_case: Reading/writing xml data
 interface: CLI
 dependencies: Python

diff --git a/_tools/12.html b/_tools/12.html
@@ -6,12 +6,11 @@
 source_code: https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine
 creator: Community contributors
 type: Standalone tool
-category_broad:
+category:
   - Editing
   - Transformation
   - Retrieval
   - Analysis
-category_broad_informal:
 use_case: Assessing metadata
 interface: CLI
 dependencies: Python

diff --git a/_tools/13.html b/_tools/13.html
@@ -6,10 +6,9 @@
 source_code: https://github.com/ncdhc/dpla-aggregation-tools
 creator: Stefan Behnel, main developer and maintainer, with other contributors
 type: Programming language or library
-category_broad:
+category:
   - Analysis
   - Retrieval
-category_broad_informal:
 use_case: Parsing, munging, validating machine readable data
 interface: CLI
 dependencies: Python

diff --git a/_tools/14.html b/_tools/14.html
@@ -6,10 +6,9 @@
 source_code: https://github.com/sparkica/LODRefine
 creator: Mateja Verlic (@sparkica)
 type: Interface (GUI) tools
-category_broad:
+category:
   - Analysis
   - Transformation
-category_broad_informal:
 use_case: Efficiency and assessment across large datasets
 interface: GUI
 dependencies: N/A

diff --git a/_tools/15.html b/_tools/15.html
@@ -6,13 +6,12 @@
 source_code: https://cran.r-project.org/mirrors.html
 creator: The R Foundation
 type: Programming language or library
-category_broad:
+category:
   - Editing
   - Analysis
   - Transformation
   - Retrieval
   - Validation
-category_broad_informal:
 use_case: Statistical computing and graphics
 interface: CLI; GUI
 dependencies: N/A

diff --git a/_tools/16.html b/_tools/16.html
@@ -6,12 +6,9 @@
 source_code: https://github.com/d3/d3
 creator: Mike Bostock https://github.com/mbostock
 type: Programming language or library
-category_broad:
+category:
   - Transformation
   - Analysis
-category_broad_informal:
-  - Transformation
-  - Manipulation of data
 use_case: Data transformations, visualizations
 interface: CLI
 dependencies: JavaScript

diff --git a/_tools/17.html b/_tools/17.html
@@ -6,17 +6,12 @@
 source_code: https://github.com/Conal-Tuohy/SIMILE-Gadget
 creator: Created by Stefano Mazzocchi for MIT SIMILE project
 type: Other
-category_broad:
+category:
   - Editing
   - Transformation
   - Validation
   - Analysis
-category_broad_informal:
-  - Migration
-  - Transformation
-  - Editing
-  - Validation
-use_case: Efficiency and assessment across large datasets
+use_case: Assessment across large datasets; metadata analysis
 interface: GUI; CLI
 dependencies: Java, Maven
 open_source_proprietary: Open Source

diff --git a/_tools/18.html b/_tools/18.html
@@ -6,12 +6,10 @@
 source_code: https://github.com/LibreCat/Catmandu
 creator: Open collaboration of the university libraries of Lund, Ghent, and Bielefeld
 type: Programming language or library
-category_broad:
+category:
   - Creation
   - Editing
   - Transformation
-category_broad_informal:
-  - Transformation
 use_case: Assessing, converting metadata
 interface: CLI
 dependencies: Perl

diff --git a/_tools/19.html b/_tools/19.html
@@ -6,13 +6,10 @@
 source_code: https://github.com/schematron
 creator: ISO
 type: Programming language or library
-category_broad:
+category:
   - Transformation
   - Validation
   - Analysis
-category_broad_informal:
-  - Validation
-  - Transformation
 use_case: Business rules validation, data reporting, general validation, quality control, quality assurance, firewalling, filtering, constraint checking, naming and design rules checking, statistical consistency, data exploration, transformation testing, feature extraction, house-style-rules checking
 interface: CLI
 dependencies: N/A

diff --git a/_tools/20.html b/_tools/20.html
@@ -6,14 +6,11 @@
 source_code: https://github.com/dotnetrdf/dotnetrdf
 creator: Rob Vesse et al.
 type: Interface (GUI) tools
-category_broad:
+category:
   - Creation
   - Editing
   - Transformation
   - Validation
-category_broad_informal:
-  - Editing
-  - Transformation
 use_case: Parsing, munging, validating machine readable data
 interface: CLI; GUI
 dependencies: N/A

diff --git a/_tools/21.html b/_tools/21.html
@@ -6,11 +6,9 @@
 source_code: https://github.com/usc-isi-i2/Web-Karma
 creator: University of Southern California
 type: Interface (GUI) tools
-category_broad:
+category:
   - Transformation
   - Retrieval
-category_broad_informal:
-  - Transformation
 use_case: Transforming metadata
 interface: GUI
 dependencies: Java, Maven

diff --git a/_tools/22.html b/_tools/22.html
@@ -6,15 +6,11 @@
 source_code: https://github.com/ruby-marc
 creator: Kevin Clarke, Bill Dueber, William Groppe, Ross Singer, Ed Summers
 type: Programming language or library
-category_broad:
+category:
   - Creation
   - Editing
   - Transformation
-category_broad_informal:
-  - Editing
-  - Bulk Editing
-  - Transformation
-use_case: Parsing, munging, validating machine readable data
+use_case: Bulk editing, parsing, munging, validating machine readable data
 interface: CLI
 dependencies: Ruby
 open_source_proprietary: Open Source

diff --git a/_tools/23.html b/_tools/23.html
@@ -6,12 +6,10 @@
 source_code: https://github.com/suranofsky/tech-services-g-sheets-addon
 creator: Michelle Suranofsky
 type: Plug-in
-category_broad:
+category:
   - Retrieval
-category_broad_informal:
-  - Creating
-  - Importing
-use_case: Matching metadata
+  - Creation
+use_case: Querying and importing from OCLC’s WorldCat Search API; matching metadata
 interface: GUI
 dependencies: Google Sheets
 open_source_proprietary: Open Source

diff --git a/_tools/24.html b/_tools/24.html
@@ -6,10 +6,8 @@
 source_code: https://github.com/dkudeki/metadata-maker
 creator: Deren Kudeki and Myung-Ja Han
 type: Web application
-category_broad:
+category:
   - Creation
-category_broad_informal:
-  - Creating
 use_case: Generate MARC, MARCXML, MODS, BIBFRAME, HTML
 interface: GUI
 dependencies: Recommended browsers are Chrome and Firefox