[Digikam-devel] Storage of digiKam Tags path (again)...

[Andreas Huggel]

On Sunday 11 March 2007 01:56, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I would to talk again about digiKam tags path to store in Metadata...
>
[snip]
>
> I propose to drive this Exif tags to be compatible with M$ photo
> manager and ... to add a new private Exif.Image tag to store all
> digiKam Tags path of an image using UTF8 (or UCS2 i cannot see the
> real advantage). Why not to use the tag 0x9cff witch is not yet used.
> Look the ExifTool tag database :
>
> http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/TagNames/EXIF.html
>
> What do you thing about ?
>
> Andreas, there is no risk to do it ?

The only risk I can see is that sooner or later someone else may use the 
same tags for something else. I suggest you use tags in the Exif, GPS 
or IOP directory, not in IFD0 or IFD1 to limit conflicts to the Exif 
standard only.

-ahu.