[Digikam-users] where do my tags go?

[Gilles Caulier]

Hum, go to Help/components Info and lok which Exiv2 version is used
during compilation. Also, look libkexiv2 version...

Gilles Caulier

2009/7/10 Tim Jenness <tim.jenness at gmail.com>:
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 7:16 AM, Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> 2009/7/10 Tim Jenness <tim.jenness at gmail.com>:
>> >>
>> >> > and I write the tags to my data files. With v0.9 I got tags of
>> >> > person/family/a etc but now the EXIF header only reports "tim" (and
>> >> > in
>> >> > the
>> >> > above example it would not distinguish "person/friend/tim" from
>> >> > "person/family/tim"). Looking around on the mailing list I see
>> >> > mention
>> >> > that
>> >> > digikam now uses a private "digiKam" XMP namespace for writing the
>> >> > true
>> >> > hierarchical tag and writes flat tags to the IPTC section. That's
>> >> > fine
>> >> > as
>> >> > well but I'd feel happier about it if
>> >> >
>> >> >  1. exiftool reported that it could find the digiKam namespace (or
>> >> > exiv2
>> >> > could). Can someone tell me how?
>> >> >  2. digikam itself reported the values when using the metadata tab.
>> >> > It
>> >> > reports the IPTC information that was written to the file such as
>> >> > copyright
>> >> > and the flattened tags, but the XMP section is blank.
>> >>
>> >> digiKam supports XMP starting from 0.10.0 . That means that any XMP
>> >> info
>> >> will
>> >> be added only for photos which were tagged in 0.10.0 (or later).
>> >
>> > Exactly. I'm using 0.10.0 and I use settings to make it synchronise tags
>> > to
>> > files. But whatever I do I can't get a file to report the digiKam XMP
>> > namespace, not even digiKam itself in the XMP tag.
>>
>> To support XMP, you need Exiv2 >= 0.16
>
>
> Yes. I have
> 0.18.1. So I take it that there is surprise that digikam is not reporting the XMP data in the metadata tab?
> Tim
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