[Digikam-users] Importing F-Spot tags to DigiKam

[Dotan Cohen]

On 17/01/07, Caulier Gilles <caulier.gilles at kdemail.net> wrote:
> Le mercredi 17 janvier 2007 16:04, Dotan Cohen a écrit:
> > On 17/01/07, Caulier Gilles <caulier.gilles at kdemail.net> wrote:> Le mardi
> > 16 janvier 2007 17:32, Dotan Cohen a écrit:> > I'm seriously considering
> > converting to DigiKam 0.9.0 from the> > wonderful F-Spot. It is paramount
> > that my 500+ tags on 8000+ images be> > imported from F-Spot. The tags are
> > currently stored in XMP format in> > the photos themselves, and in the
> > F-Spot sqlite database. What must I> > do to import the tags? The heiarchy
> > is not so important, as I can> > reproduce that fairly easily. Thanks in
> > advance.> >>> Well, digiKAm do not support yet XMP. All pictures metadata
> > are supported by> digiKam core using Exiv2 library. This library need to be
> > updated for that.> There is a wish in Exiv2 bugzilla about this subject :>>
> > http://dev.robotbattle.com/bugs/view.php?id=463>> Personally, i think than
> > XMP _must_ be supported by Exiv2 and digiKam. It very> important.>>
> > Actually digiKam/Exiv2 support IPTC/IIM metadata, witch are the old IPTC>
> > schema. XMP is the new IPTC schema designed by Adobe...>> If you want to
> > import your XMP info to digiKam, a solution is to write a> little script
> > witch use ExifTool to copy XMP informations to IPTC/IIM in you> pictures.>>
> > When you will start the first digiKam instance with your pictures, IPTC>
> > metadata will be parsed and the right digiKAm tags will be automaticly add
> > to> digiKam database.>> Regards>> Gilles Caulier
>
> > Thanks Gilles. Actually,
> > most of the pictures haveIPTC data as well,but it is not showing up as
> > tags. It does show up inMetadata->IPTC->Contact but in the wrong charset.
> > The IPTC data isHebrew stored in UTF-8 (as IPTC always is UTF-8), however
> > Digikamtries to display it as ISO-8859-8, which leads to me
> > seeingX-giberish-X-giberish-X. See the the 8th example on this
> > page:http://dotancohen.com/heb/encoding.phpIt's in Hebrew, but it's an
> > example of UTF-8 text being displayed as ISO-8859-8. I went looking for the
> > Digikam database but it's not in~/.kde/share/apps/digikam. Where is it? I
> > might just run a few querieson the sqlite database to inject the tags.
> > Dotan Cohen
>
> Yes, i know the problem. In fact the UTF-8 problem is know.
>
> IPTC UTF-8 support is not clear in IPTC/IIM spec. We have found a solution in
> this B.K.O report :
>
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=132244
>
> It's not yet corrected in current implementation. I will try to do it before
> 0.9.1 release date.
>
> I will very interressed if you can post comments in this B.K.O file, for
> example, to attach some pictures with UTF8 IPTC char-set.
>
> Gilles
>

No problem. They'll be in Hebrew, but I'll make the photos images of
what the word should look like if it is displayed properly. I'm at the
university now, I'll get on it as soon as I get home.

Dotan Cohen

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