[Digikam-users] Question about EXIF/IPTC, tags, comments, etc.

[Gilles Caulier]

2008/1/14, Arnd Baecker <arnd.baecker at web.de>:
>
> On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Chris G wrote:
>
> > I'm currently scanning a lot of old B&W negatives from the 1960s,
> > initially I have just scanned them into albums by (approximate) date
> > as that is how they are stored.  E.g. number 64_04_11 is the eleventh
> > negative of the fourth film I shot in 1964.
> >
> > So far so good!  :-)
> >
> > As I'm scanning the negatives I'm putting descriptions (as far as I am
> > able) of the subject etc. in the comments field.  Am I right in
> > thinking these comments are stored in the image file as well as in the
> > Digikam database?
>
> If you have configured digikam accordingly: yes.
> Check the configuration, I think writing that information
> into the files is not active by default.
>
> > Now I would like to add some technical information to the images, what
> > is the best way of doing this?  I want to add such things as camera,
> > and possibly the film type where I know it.  It seems a bit clumsy to
> > add these as further comments and anyway it would be rather difficult
> > to add the same comment to a batch of images,
>
> I would use tags for this purpose
> (actually also even for the description you might
> be better of with using tags ....)


Arnd,

A lots of technicals descriptions can be hosted by standard Exif tags. Extra
descriptions can be hosted by IPTC if Exif is not enough. Metadata editor
can be used for that :

http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/Screenshots/newkipimetadataeditplugin2.png

Note : With XMP supported by KDE4 port, we will host more and more
informations with max. interoperability.

Best

Gilles
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