[Digikam-users] Albums: how do you organize them?

[Milan Knížek]

jim junk píše v So 01. 05. 2010 v 15:49 -0400:

> The great thing about hierarchical tags is that you can come in
> anywhere in the hierarchy and get everything below that point.  So to
> use your example in the Europe/France/Paris/Montmartre tag you could
> go to the left window>Tags>click on Paris and you would get all the
> tags and images that are below that level including Montmartre.  You
> could also click on France and get all of the tags and images below
> that hierarchy including Paris and Montmartre.
> 

The trouble with classical tags is that each person can have a different
structure.

I still use the IPTC location fields (location, city, state, country),
the only trouble is that digiKam does not support mass tagging - one has
to tag images one by one.

there is a bug reported:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144858

More about IPTC XMP schema:
http://www.iptc.org/std/Iptc4xmpCore/1.0/documentation/Iptc4xmpCore_1.0-doc-CpanelsUserGuide_13.pdf

Geo-tagging is nice, but it refers to a particular spot on the globe,
not area, and cannot be searched by location names using current tools -
maybe in the future, who knows.

This is a major show-stopper for me, so I had to adjust my workflow and
tag only JPEG images, while keeping untagged raw files in a subfolder.
For IPTC location fields I use MaPiVi (very effective tool, but supports
only JPEGs). Then I reread metadata in digiKam and use normal keyword
tagging in digiKam.

If the support for IPTC does not improve in digiKam, I may have to
convert my 10 years archive to regular keywords to make the workflow
simpler... :-(

regards,

Milan Knizek
knizek (dot) confy (at) volny (dot) cz
http://www.milan-knizek.net - About linux and photography (Czech
language only)
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