[Digikam-users] digikam's "Settings, Configure, Identity" IPTC fields

[Gilles Caulier]

2008/1/21, Martin Laberge <mlsoft at videotron.ca>:
>
> On January 21, 2008 12:52:19 elle stone wrote:
> >
> > Under digikam's "Settings, Configure, Identity" is found "Photographer
> > Information": Author, Author Title; "Credit and Copyright": Credit,
> Source,
> > Copyright.  I checked around the internet to see what these various
> fields
> > are supposed to mean, be, do . . . and thought I would share.  Please
> > correct my mistakes, as I don't want to lead anyone astray.  And if this
> is
> > the wrong place to share such garnered information, please tell me and I
> > apologize in advance!
> >
> > 1. The "Copyright" field"
> > 1a. An example of how to fill in the "Copyright" field is found here:
> > http://www.controlledvocabulary.com/imagedatabases/iptc_naa.html
> > (c) Juanita Doe/Parador Times, all rights reserved
> >
> > 1b. That pesky little copyright symbol.  I can't find any way to get the
> > copyright symbol into digikam's "Configure -digikam, Identity: Default
> IPTC
> > identity information", Credit and Copyright, Copyright"
> field.  According to
> > here: http://www.iusmentis.com/copyright/symbol/ substitutes for the
> symbol,
> > like (c), or abbreviations, are not "legal" substitutes.  But you don't
> need
> > the symbol, as the word "copyright" serves just as well.
> >
> > 1c. "All rights reserved".  According to here:
> > http://www.iusmentis.com/copyright/allrightsreserved/ this phrase has
> not
> > much legal meaning.  However, everyone else, including the "IPTC Core
> Schema
> > for XMP" (see
> >
> www.iptc.org/std/Iptc4xmpCore/1.0/documentation/Iptc4xmpCore_1.0-doc-CpanelsUserGuide_13.pdf
> )
> > tells you to  include the phrase "all rights reserved" if you intend to
> > protect your copyright.
> >
> > 1d. Why bother with the "Copyright" field at all?  The short answer is
> it
> > seems to be the way to avoid having one's work "orphaned."  See
> > http://imagemetadata.com/ for helpful links about the controversy.  (One
> > also needs to include contact information as part of the image metadata,
> to
> > avoid the "orphan" problem.)  And the copyright field also seems to be
> the
> > appropriate place to release a photograph to the creative commons, with
> a
> > specification of the "rights granted", as the copyright laws presume
> rights
> > are reserved unless specifically granted.  Or so it seems to me.  I am
> not a
> > lawyer.
> >
> > 2. "Author", "Credit", and "Source" sound an awful lot alike, but they
> are
> > conceptually different, though in fact often the same person/entity.
> > Information and quotes in 2a, 2b, 2c below are from:
> >
> http://www.iptc.org/std/Iptc4xmpCore/1.0/documentation/Iptc4xmpCore_1.0-doc-CpanelsUserGuide_13.pdf
> .
> >
> > 2a. "Creator" and "Author" are "shared fields", meaning whatever is
> entered
> > into the one appears in the other, in the upcoming/developing
> (Adobe-led)
> > XMP standards.  Likewise "Author Title" and "Creator's Job Title" are
> shared
> > (these "shared fields" are a "backwards compatibility" thing as XMP
> evolves
> > to include more than IPTC and EXIF).  So if you work for an
> organization,
> > your job title goes here.  If you work for yourself or take pictures as
> a
> > passion rather than as a profession, I suppose "Photographer" or
> "Starving
> > Artist" might go here.
> >
> > 2b."Credit" is the same as "Provider".  "Use the Provider field to
> identify
> > who is providing the photograph. This doesn't have to necessarily be the
> > owner/ creator. If a photographer is working for a news agency such as
> > Reuters or the Associated Press, these organizations could be listed
> here as
> > they are "providing" the image for use by others. If the image is a
> stock
> > photograph, then the group (agency) involved in supplying the image
> should
> > be listed here. Note: This field is "shared" with the "Credit" field in
> the
> > Origin panel of the Adobe Photoshop File Info field."
> >
> > 2c."Source".  "The Source field should be used to identify the original
> > owner or copyright holder of the photograph. The value of this field
> should
> > never be changed after the information is entered following the image's
> > creation. While not yet enforced by the custom panels, you should
> consider
> > this to be a "write-once" field. The source could be an individual, an
> > agency, or a member of an agency. . . . Source may also be different
> > from Creator and from the names listed in the Copyright Notice. Note:
> This
> > field is "shared" with the "Source" field in the Origin panel of the
> Adobe
> > Photoshop File Info field."
> >
>
> Thanks for the information, this is very well phrased,
> and it helps me very much in the understanding of these fields.
>
> I am sure many others too.
>
> I would suggest that this whole explanation be included somewhere
> in the digikam documentation, if it were possible.
>
> Using this as a reference, we could have some yellow-popups
> over these fields to describe them.
>
> What do you think, Gilles ??


Totally agree with you. Pop-up help is a fine way to guide user.

It's a non developper task. A patch is easy to do. If you is interested,
code to fix is here :

http://websvn.kde.org/branches/extragear/kde3/graphics/digikam/utilities/setup/setupidentity.cpp?revision=720668&view=markup

...look all QWhatsThis::add(...) call in constructor...

Best

Gilles


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