<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title></head><body><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:126.56%;">Alan,</div><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:126.56%;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:126.56%;">I don’t use heirarchical tags at all. I create individual tags for each aspect of the photo, for example: year, person’s name, location, etc. this way I can do simple searches on any of those tags, plus you can use the search tab on left sidebar to create far more sophisticated searches. digiKam is an amazing piece of software!</div><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:126.56%;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:126.56%;">Jay</div><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:126.56%;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:126.56%;"><br></div><div>On Sun, Feb 1, 2026, at 10:27, Alan Seal wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><p><span class="size" style="font-size:18px;">I am trying to catalogue and manage my collection
of images created over many years, many scanned from prints or
slides.</span></p><p><span class="size" style="font-size:18px;">I wish to record 1) names of people 2) places
depicted and 3) keywords. I assume the best way to do so is
using tags where there is country hierarchy, lists of people and
provision for keywords.</span></p><p><font size="4">(snip)</font></p><p><span class="size" style="font-size:18px;"></span><br></p></blockquote><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:126.56%;"><br></div></body></html>