[Digikam-users] IPTC handling and limits

Thomas Hummel hummel at pasteur.fr
Wed Sep 12 20:11:53 BST 2007


On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 01:06:59PM -0400, Jay Dickon Glanville wrote:

> I think what Thomas is asking is, does it make sense to use a
> tag/keyword to denote the pictures location when there is a field
> specific to location in the IPTC specification?

Exactly. Knowing that tags are handeled inside digikam but the location IPTC field can, to my knowledge, "just" be edited by hand through kipi plugin. Which would lead to the dilemma :

easy handling through tags vs coherent storage in the appropriate IPTC field.



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