[Digikam-users] how to NOT embed tag hierarchy in IPTC?

[Chris G]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 10:02:47PM +0200, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> 2008/7/31 Lawrence Plug <ljp at dal.ca>:
> > When sending an image to agencies and stock, I need only the
> > individual tags, not the whole tag hierarchy, to be the IPTC
> > keyword.
> >
> > For example, if i select only toronto, ontario, and canada in this
> > hierarchy:
> >
> > places/canada/ontario/toronto
> >
> > .. I want 'toronto', 'ontario', and 'canada' to appear as
> > individual IPTC keywords.
> >
> > Is there currently a way to do this??
> >
> > If not, I'll enter a feature request. When I use digikam now, a
> > lot of editing of IPTC keywords outside digikam is required
> > before submitting images. I could abandon hierarchical tags in
> > digikam, but I don't want to do that as they are useful for
> > organization.
> 
> Since digiKam 0.10.0 (KDE4) support XMP, we have a dedicated namespace
> to host Tags Path. By this way iptc only store tags names as keywords,
> like you want.
> 
Will it *only* work this way?  I usually want it to work the way it
already works in 0.9.x & KDE3.  For example if I mark an image as
Oman/Muscat I want to know it's a picture I took in Oman as well as
being a picture of Muscat.

> But it's not implemented in digiKam for KDE3, because it doesn't
> support XMP (and there is no plan to do it)
> 
> Best
> 
> Gilles Caulier
> 
> 
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> > Lawrence
> >
> >
> >
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Chris Green