[Digikam-devel] [Digikam-users] IPTC and XMP "title" tag information

[Michael G. Hansen]

On 05/24/2010 08:56 PM, kunal ghosh wrote:
> One of the use-case for scripting in digikam

Yes! Maybe you can also create a wiki page where you gather some 
information about your project (use cases, implementation details, open 
questions). We already have these pages for two other projects, just add 
a sub-page for yours:

http://community.kde.org/Digikam/GSoC2010/

Michael

>
> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 12:17 AM, Rainer Krienke<krienke at uni-koblenz.de>wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I just found out that digikam when I set an image description in the
>> appropriate field in the right sidetab where you can also set tags, that
>> this
>> information is written into the IPTC "caption" and XMP "description"
>> entries.
>>
>> Unfortunately I am working right now with zenfolio webgallery services
>> (www.zenfolio.com). They do for example provide flash based slideshows you
>> can
>> embed in your own webpage and these slideshows can also show a title of the
>> photo displayed, eg where it was taken.
>>
>> The problem is: digikam writes the informatiion I entered to the caption
>> and
>> zenfolio wants to read this information from the title of IPTC. So the
>> description is always empty because zenfolio and digikam do not agree where
>> to
>> search for a description or title (both make sense for describing  what a
>> photo shows).
>>
>> Is there any way I can make digikam write the captions text also to the
>> title
>> entry automatically? I know I could use the metadata editor but this would
>> mean I have to manually copy the information for each photo for IPTC and
>> XMP.
>> This is not really an option.
>>
>> Is there a way to tell digikam what information to write to which fields in
>> IPTC and XMP?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Rainer
>>
>> --
>> Rainer Krienke, Uni Koblenz, Rechenzentrum, A22, Universitaetsstrasse  1
>> 56070 Koblenz, http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~krienke, Tel: +49261287 1312
>> PGP: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~krienke/mypgp.html,Fax: +49261287 1001312
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