[Digikam-devel] First proposal for IPTC interface

[Renchi Raju]

On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, Heiner Lamprecht wrote:

> 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

let me backtrack a bit. you had a sent an email earlier that you were 
working on this and i was not well at that time and i forgot to reply to 
your email later. i apologize for that.

i had raised some issues about exiv2 when we had this discussion earlier:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=10586240

has there been any change in the issues which i raised my concern about:
* internationalization support
* wide spread availability.
* iptc becoming an obsolete format with a transition to xmp. additionally 
iptc is available only for JPEG and TIFF file formats and not for PNG, 
which is widely used by many of the users. the other issue is IPTC not 
supporting hierarchical tags (as you pointed out) which prevents it 
becoming the primary image metadata format.

renchi