[Digikam-devel] [Bug 181708] [WISH] "fast" tags, that are not written to the image (only to database)

[Sherwood Botsford]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=181708


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--- Comment #6 from Sherwood Botsford <sgbotsford gmail com>  2009-04-05 18:11:59 ---
I agree with original poster.  There are lots of ways to use tags that are not
specific to a picture but are useful to collections of pictures.

One way to solve this would be to run two databases:  One is PICTURE meta data.
One is DIGIKAM meta-data.  

Digikam meta-data examples:
Tags can get out of hand if you use lots of them. Tag sets could be define for
the collection level. So the tag-tree would have the option:  Show this branch
only for this album.

Slideshow tags.  
If you work in PR or are a public speaker, you will have BUNCHES of slideshows
for different purposes. And you are adding/subtracting stuff to them all the
time.  If you can tag for "Church group speech" "Kiwanis" "Outdoor Ed"  Sure
you can use regular tags for this, but those tags may not be best in a picture.


Workflow tags.
Several programs I've run into have tag sets that reflect the stage in the
workflow.  E.g.
Pix come in and are assigned a tag unviewed.
The act of viewing it once changes it to viewed.
After going through the entire collection, and chucking the duds, the status
for every pic can be set to "culled"

Set tags.  We all do it.  We take 50 pix of something, chuck 30.  Of the
remaining 20, there are 2 sets of 6 and one set of 8 that are essentially
duplicates, but you don't want to chuck them, because they are all good.

So you mark them as a set.  Pick one as canonical for the set.  In thumbnail
view this shows up as a stack of slides in one corner.  This is code for, "This
slide has a bunch of almost identical siblings.

If possible sets should be nestable.

(This sort of thing is has great power for a commercial user.  A good way to
prove that you are the original owner of a picture is the ability to produce
shots from the same session.  This would be very hard to fake.)

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