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[Elle Stone]

Gilles,

Thank you so much for helping. It may take a couple of days before
I've understood and collected all the info you requested. For now,
here's the digiKam components:

digiKam version 1.3.0
Exiv2 can write to Jp2: Yes
Exiv2 can write to Jpeg: Yes
Exiv2 can write to Pgf: No
Exiv2 can write to Png: Yes
Exiv2 can write to Tiff: Yes
Exiv2 supports XMP metadata: Yes
LibCImg: 130
LibExiv2: 0.19
LibJPEG: 62
LibJasper: 1.900.1
LibKDE: 4.4.5 (KDE 4.4.5)
LibKExiv2: 1.1.0
LibKdcraw: 1.1.0
LibLCMS: 118
LibPGF: 6.09.44
LibPNG: 1.2.42
LibQt: 4.6.3
LibRaw: 0.10.0-Beta1
LibTIFF: LIBTIFF, Version 3.9.2 Copyright (c) 1988-1996 Sam Leffler
Copyright (c) 1991-1996 Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Marble widget: 0.9.3
Parallelized demosaicing: Yes
Database backend: QSQLITE
LibGphoto2: 2.4.8
LibKipi: 1.0.0

I'm sending a sample jpeg to your private email. And I will strive to
update exiv2 to 0.20.

I looked at the code in
http://lxr.kde.org/source/extragear/graphics/digikam/libs/dmetadata/dmetadata.cpp#574.
The easiest IMatch script for me to use is the one that writes dotted
keywords to IPTC keyword field, as writing directly to XMP for a bunch
of files at once is not well-supported in IMatch v 3.6. All the other
available scripts would require modification, if they would run at
all.

Thank you again for helping,

Elle

On 7/13/10, Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/7/13 Elle Stone <l.elle.stone at gmail.com>:
>> Dear Digikam users,
>>
>
> Hi Elle.
>
>> I have a problem and I'm hoping someone here can help.
>>
>> I have about 9000 images in an IMatch database, running on windows in
>> a VirtualBox. I've been putting off transferring my categorization
>> efforts over to Digikam, but IMatch isn't running as well as it used
>> to in the VirtualBox - an understatement.
>
> This is a very important subject from me, to be able to import tags
> hierarchies from another photo-management software.
>
> I already solved lightroom, picasa, and iphoto import through XMP
> metadata. imach is not yet done.
>
>>
>> If it is relevant, I'm running Digikam 10.4 on Ubuntu Lucid using
>
> This is not help. Go to Help/Components Info and give me a copy of all
> info provided, in cluding right digiKam version show in the dialog.
>
> The id provided by ubuntu do not fell digiKam release id. Do not ask me
> why...
>
> In all case, i recommend to update to last digiKam 1.3.0 release.
> Also, to have Exiv2 library updated to last 0.20.0 is very there
> important here.
>
>> icewm as the window manager, with a mix of gnome, kde, and other apps.
>>
>> I have hierarchical categories/tags in IMatch. IMatch can write IPTC
>> and XMP to the image file itself or to a side-car. About half of my
>> images are jpegs. The rest are raw (CR2) files. IMatch can write to
>> both raw and jpeg, but writing to the raw files is very, very, very
>> slow.
>
> yes, i know. I already tested imach on my computer.
>
> Note that xmp side car is not yet fully supported by digiKam. This is
> will done with digiKam 2.0.0. It's under development.
>
>>
>> I made a test run with some jpegs, using an IMatch script to write the
>> keywords to the IPTC keywords field. Digikam  doesn't import the
>> dotted keywords from the IPTC keywords field as tags - the dotted
>> keywords just get ignored, though they are visible in the Digikam IPTC
>> window.
>
> digiKam do not use a '.' as separator, but '/'.
>
> Look this code relevant :
>
> http://lxr.kde.org/source/extragear/graphics/digikam/libs/dmetadata/dmetadata.cpp#574
>
> Look like, for LightRoom, i have adapted code to use '|' instead '/'.
> I can do it also for Imach.
>
> You will see also there where tags path list list will be parsed from
> metadata. By order :
>
> Xmp.digiKam.TagsList        => 1/ from digiKam xpm namespace. this is
> out of subject there for you.
> Xmp.lr.hierarchicalSubject   => 2/ from LightRoom namespace.
> Xmp.dc.subject                  => 3./ from standard xmp keywords.
> Iptc.Application2.Keywords  => 4/ and finaly, from standard iptc keywords
>
> Now, i need to know WHERE Imach write tags path list in metadata. I
> need a sample image processed to check. A jpeg file is enough here.
> lease send me it by private mail.
>
> and this to be continued (:=)))
>
> Gilles Caulier
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