[Digikam-users] Fwd: (no subject)

[Elle Stone]

All the images in my IMatch database have been successfully
transferred over to digiKam. Thanks to Gilles, all my keywords are in
place, at least for the jpegs. I think I will just have to re-tag the
3500 raw files.

While still in IMatch I used the IMatch IPTC-writer to write country,
state, city, (sub)location. I'm not sure if digiKam read the location,
though country, state, city is in each jpeg. Then I used an
IMatch-supplied script to batch-copy categories to dotted.hierarchy
IPTC keywords.

Before adding the "collection" to digiKam, I used exiftool to: (1)
remove all xmp tags from each image, along with quite a few individual
iptc tags that had erroneous information. At some time in the past,
somehow a tagging scheme that I had since ceased using had gotten
embedded in a lot of the images, and that tagging scheme was being
read by digiKam instead of the tags in IPTC. (2) add copyright,
by-line, by-line title, contact information to IPTC. (3) rename from
yyyymmdd_hhmmss.ext to yymmdd-##.ext and rearrange file tree from
yyyy/mm/dd to yy/mm - makes using the command line a lot easier when
the path and file name are short.

The above steps took quite a bit of experimentation with exiftool to
get right, plus the time to actually write to all the images, plus
further experimentation with digiKam on test directories. It was with
a bit of trepidation that I turned digiKam loose on the newly
restructured file tree to import roughly 9000 images. But the import
was smooth and quick.

Thank you Gilles and thank you digiKam.

Elle