[Digikam-users] Fwd: (no subject)

[Gilles Caulier]

2010/7/16 Elle Stone <l.elle.stone at gmail.com>:
> 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.

Later, with XMP side car support currently under implementation for
digiKam 2.0, you will be able to backport RAW tags in digiKam.

>
> 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.

Reverse geocoding in under developement for digiKam 2.0.

I lets Michael or Gabriel explain better there.

Take a look here also:

http://www.digikam.org/drupal/node/532

>
> 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.
>

De nada. Quick and simple to do.

Gilles