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

[Chris G]

On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 09:57:35PM +0100, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> 
>    2008/1/14, Arnd Baecker <[1]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 :
>    [2]http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/Screenshots/newkipimetadataeditplugi
>    n2.png
>    Note  :  With  XMP  supported by KDE4 port, we will host more and more
>    informations with max. interoperability.

Thank you Gilles, I was hoping/expecting to be able to edit the EXIF
and/or IPTC data somehow, you've told me how.

It raises a couple of questions though:-

    Can I select a number of pictures in an album and add EXIF tags
    for all of them in one go?  E.g. can I add the Camera type to many
    images at one time?

    Is there a way to 'export' Digikam comments to metadata in bulk,
    i.e. for a whole album?


-- 
Chris Green