[Digikam-devel] [Bug 171736] New: Make transferring of metadata between machines easier

[Michał Kosmulski]

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171736

           Summary: Make transferring of metadata between machines easier
           Product: digikam
           Version: 0.9.4
          Platform: Slackware Packages
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: digikam-devel at kde.org
        ReportedBy: mkosmul at users.sourceforge.net


Version:           0.9.4 (using KDE 3.5.9)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Slackware Packages

I often download images from my camera to a laptop and later on transfer them
to a PC. Now, I would like to add some metadata to the images while they are
still on the laptop, i.e. add to them comments, tags, ratings, choose album
descriptions and thumbnails etc. Currently it is, in my opinion, rather hard to
add this kind of metadata on one machine and then transfer the images and their
metadata to another one.
Some information can be stored directly in the image files and then later
synchronized with the database, but as far as I know, for example tags can't.
It would be great if there existed an option to export an album's or selected
images' metadata to a single XML file, which could be copied to the other
machine and then imported to the database of the other digikam instance. This
could work for example by mapping the file paths relative to some root
directory to metadata (e.g. there exists an album called <albums home>/A/B/D,
album B is exported, so all paths in the XML are saved relative to <albums
home>/A/B). I think such a unified way of transferring metadata between digikam
instances would very much simplify working with multiple machines, as in the
case of a PC and a laptop or for people who use one machine at home and another
at work.


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