[Digikam-users] New User: is digiKam right for me? and if not, what alternative?

[Yuval Levy]

Gilles Caulier wrote:
>     simlyinking the sqlite database file looks good to me, but IMHO album =
>     folder is bad. 
> 
> 
> 
> ??? Why ???

because it is an artificial limitation to a single mode of working, 
while human beings work in different modes.

I've seen photographers who simply arrive to the office and dump their 
flash card onto one single folder. So their folder structure is 
something like:
pictures/DCIM/390CANON/
pictures/DCIM/391CANON/
pictures/DCIM/392CANON/
...

they don't bother to do anything else.

Then there are those like me who store their pictures in one folder per 
shooting, sorted by date and with names that have some indication as to 
the location or subject:
pictures/071124montreal
pictures/071125pontjacquescartier
pictures/071125pressconference


I happen to do work for a client over multiple days, and sometimes even 
multiple locations, which results in multiple folders. In Adobe 
Lightroom I just add all of those different folders to one album, and so 
I can have an album per client, while still keeping my principal 
structure above.

I retain copyright to most of my shooting, so the client perspective 
(the albums) is only important until the work for the client finished. 
but the chronological perspective is more important to me, for later. it 
gives me a sense of how I spent the last months and years.

such a long text to just give one answer: FLEXIBILITY.

thanks for the links to the DBschemas. I'll have a look at them, and if 
you're interested I will comment.

Yuv