[Digikam-devel] First proposal for IPTC interface

[Heiner Lamprecht]

Hi everybody,

as already mentioned, I'm working on an integration of the IPTC 
datafields in digikam.

You can find two screenshots proposing a new "Image Comments/Tags" 
dialog displaying both the tags and the IPTC fields:

http://www.heiner-lamprecht.net/digikam_new_01.png
http://www.heiner-lamprecht.net/digikam_new_02.png

I would like to get your feedback and discuss some more question on 
the integration.  So far, I only used a few fields defined in the 
IPTC standard.  For a complete list of tags supported by exiv2, see 
http://home.arcor.de/ahuggel/exiv2/iptc.html

Some of the fields, like e.g. the country code (and as a result the 
country name), normally have predefined contents.  Shall we 
therefore offer a readonly list to select instead of allowing free 
text?

When using IPTC, IMHO all metadata on the images shall be stored in 
the image file itself, meaning that the db-file we use now will 
only act as an index but not the primary source of information.  In 
that case we need to find a way to handle hierarchical tags as IPTC 
doesn't support the directly.

In the current version, one can enter a comment, which is for me 
more or less the same as the IPTC "summary".  But nevertheless, it 
is a different datafield, because it is stored as the EXIF-comment, 
which is also supported by several other applications.  Shall we 
merge them automatically or shall the user be able to add them 
differently?


Regards,


    Heiner

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