[Digikam-users] Some matters with metadata edit

[Photonoxx]

Le Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:13:01 +0100, Gilles Caulier  
<caulier.gilles at gmail.com> a écrit:

> 2009/2/2 Photonoxx <smtp.no at laposte.net>
>
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I use Digikam 0.10 rc2 (rev 916863), and I notice some matters when I  
>> edit
>> metadata on my RAW files (but i should probably be the same thing with
>> Jpeg.
>>
>>
>> The first thing, is if I check the option for write the default identity
>> item as tag, if the named tag already exist, it will be overwritten...  
>> Is
>> there a way to avoid this ?
>>
>
> no. a file already exist in bugzilla to add photographers list  
> management in
> digiKam. It's not yet done.

It's not specificly to manage Photographer list, but I import my photo  
 from memory card to harddisk with exiftool which already add some info  
about my identy. I want to say it, may be, will be great that Digikam  
don't overwrite a tag (author, copyrights, etc...) if this one already  
exist, except if it's expressively asked.


>> A second notice is that when I check a tag in the "caption/tag" tab in  
>> the
>> right panel and I apply it, Digikam write IPTC and XMP metadata in the  
>> RAW
>> file, but, if I unchecked this tag afterall, the IPTC seems to be  
>> removed
>
>
> You want mean the IPTC keyword tag is removed ?

Yes, as I want. When you check a tag and apply it in Digikam, there's IPTC  
Keywords and XMP Subject added. But if I uncheck a tag, the XMP subject  
entry persist.

>
>>
>> but the XMP don't.
>
>
> Please post here the list of IPTC and XMP tags from your image. In  
> metadata
> tab from right sidebar, there is a button to copy in clipboard metadata
> contents as text.

is there the XMP :
******************
File name: nb-photos-20090201-115805.nef (XMP Schema)

>>> Dublin Core <<<

Creator : Nicolas Boulesteix
Description : photonoxx at free.fr Boulesteix Nicolas
Rights : (c) Nicolas Boulesteix, all rights reserved / tous droits réservés
Source :
Subject : Mer


>>> digiKam <<<

Tags List :


>>> Exif-specific Properties <<<

Date and Time Original : 2009:02:01 11:58:05
User Comment : photonoxx at free.fr Boulesteix Nicolas


>>> Adobe Photoshop <<<

Authors Position : Photographe
Credit :
Date Created : 2009-02-01T11:58:05
Source :


>>> TIFF Properties <<<

Artist : Nicolas Boulesteix
Copyright : (c) Nicolas Boulesteix, all rights reserved / tous droits  
réservés
Date and Time : 2009-02-01T11:58:05
Image Description : photonoxx at free.fr Boulesteix Nicolas
Software : digiKam-0.10.0-rc2 (rev.: 916863)


>>> Basic Schema <<<

Create Date : 2009-02-01T11:58:05
Creator Tool : digiKam-0.10.0-rc2 (rev.: 916863)
Metadata Date : 2009-02-01T11:58:05
Modify Date : 2009-02-01T11:58:05

******************
And now the IPTC :
******************
File name: nb-photos-20090201-115805.nef (IPTC Records)

>>> IIM Application 2 <<<

By-line : Nicolas Boulesteix
By-line Title : Photographe
Caption : photonoxx at free.fr Boulesteix Nicolas
Copyright : (c) Nicolas Boulesteix, all rights reserved / tous droits  
réservés
Credit :
Date Created : 2009-02-01
Program : digiKam
Program Version : 0.10.0-rc2 (rev.: 916863)
Record Version : 4
Source :
Time Created : 11:58:05+00:00
******************

You can see the "Mer" subject in XMP is not in IPTC keywords (that's  
normal for IPTC as long I uncheck the "Mer" tag in right panel caption/tag  
tab)

>> So I don't know if it's bug, a miss or if I miss
>> something in configuring Digikam, but it's for me potentially  
>> problematic.
>>
>>
>> A third, less important, thing, is that when I edit and apply some
>> metadata, the last modified date of the file is not changed. It make  
>> sense
>> for me, because I use Synkron to make backup of my album, and as long
>> Synkron look only at modification date, it don't see any changes if I  
>> only
>> modify metadatas with digikam on these files. I don't know if it's
>> possible to set the modification date to the files attributes when
>> metadatas are modified, but it will be great for me.
>>
>
> For that, there is a new option in metadata control panel, but only when  
> you
> use libkexiv2 from trunk
>
> Gilles Caulier

Thanks, but I think i have libKexiv2 from trunk (installed with  
KDEsvn-build script), should I update the KDE/Graphics element ?

Is there the info about component (from digikam info panel):

digiKam version 0.10.0-rc2 (rev.: 916863)
Exiv2 can write to Jp2: Yes
Exiv2 can write to Jpeg: Yes
Exiv2 can write to Png: Yes
Exiv2 can write to Tiff: Yes
Exiv2 support XMP metadata: Yes
LibCImg: 129
LibExiv2: 0.18
LibJPEG: 62
LibJasper: 1.900.1
LibKDE: 4.1.87 (KDE 4.1.87 (KDE 4.2 >= 20090101))
LibKExiv2: 0.5.0
LibKdcraw: 0.4.0
LibLCMS: 116
LibPNG: 1.2.27
LibQt: 4.4.3
LibRaw: 0.6.5-Release
LibTIFF: LIBTIFF, Version 3.8.2 Copyright (c) 1988-1996 Sam Leffler  
Copyright (c) 1991-1996 Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Marble widget: pre 0.7 SVN
LibGphoto2: 2.4.2
LibKipi: 0.3.0


I see something about writing timestamp as Tag, but nothing about set  
"modication date" file attribute when metadata edit.

Anyway, thanks a lot for your answer.


Nicolas



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