[Digikam-devel] XMP to solve tags name and Tags Path record in pictures metadata...

[Mikolaj Machowski]

Dnia wtorek 02 październik 2007, Gilles Caulier napisał:
> > > The only tags witch cann ot be sync is makernote. A possible
> > > solution is to host markernotes byte array as binary string in a
> > > dedicaced Xmp tag. but it doesn't exist in norm.
> >
> > Binary XML is evil ;) As you wrote in several occasions (in
> > apprehension) - leave Makernotes as they are and don't touch them
> > if not really necessary.
> >
> > Personally I am interested *exclusively* in contextual metadata like
> > covered in Dublin Core and IPTC Core.
> >
> > > The way to save markernot in Xmp is
> > > important, especially with TIFF file format. libtiff is weird to
> > > handle/manage all Exif tags. When we convert a RAW file to TIFF, all
> > > Exif/Markernotes tags diseapear. Until than Exiv2 support tiff
> > > writing mode, this can be an alternative...
>
> Hey Mik, do you remember this entry about TIFF and Exif (:=))):
>
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146714
>
Well,

Mik at home is interested in everything,
Mik at work is interested only in contextual metadata :)

m.