[Digikam-users] Re: How to read author and copyright metadata written by DigiKam

[Yuri Galachyants]

Hi,

Thanks all for advices.

It seems my Digikam does not write all the metadata I need into image
header (or just I can't read it). What I look for is the metadata from
a Caption/Tags->Description tab. There is a number of fields
on Rights, Location, Contact, and Subjects. And none of these fields
are in the output of either exiv2 or exiftool, even after I'm doing
force Image->"Write Metadata to Image" in Digikam. If an export of
these metadata into images is implemented, I tend to suppose there is
either a sort of Digikam incompatibility with a version of exif
libraries or the problem with the metadata readers I'm using. Could
you provide me a clue which versions I need to get the
functionality desired?

A screenshot with the Digikam tab I'm talking about as well
as a dummy image where these data should be (but it's not there
according to my exiftool and exiv2 outputs) could be found here:

ftp://yuragal.dyndns.org/photos/tmp/Screenshot-digiKam.png
ftp://yuragal.dyndns.org/photos/tmp/IMG_2836.jpg

Here is my software spec:
$ uname -a
Linux yuragal-desktop 2.6.32-25-generic-pae #45-Ubuntu SMP Sat Oct 16
21:01:33 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=lucid
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS"

$ digikam -v
Qt: 4.6.2
KDE Development Platform: 4.4.2 (KDE 4.4.2)
digiKam: 1.2.0

$exiftool -ver
7.89

$ exiv2 -V
exiv2 0.19

Best regards, Yuri.

>
>
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Photonoxx <photonoxx at free.fr> wrote:
>>
>> Basically, I thing exiv2 and exiftool should return all the metadata in an
>> image if you just enter the file as "argument". there should be some
>> options to display the precise XMP/IPTC path and name of each entry, and
>> with that, you'll be able to determine how get the information you want I
>> guess.
>>
>> man exiftool can give you some info.
>>
>> If you make exiftool -G -S yourfile
>>
>> It should return all the metadatas sorted by group and with the group and
>> shortname for each tag.
>>
>> So in this output you look which tag interest you and you get its name.
>> The subject is output among others as this :
>>
>> [XMP] Subject : subject1, subject2, etc...
>>
>> If you want to gey this tag, you just have to do this in terminal :
>>
>> exiftool -XMP:Subject yourfile
>>
>> Le Thu, 11 Nov 2010 05:04:41 +0100, Yuri Galachyants <yuragal at gmail.com> a
>> écrit:
>>
>> > Hi!
>> >
>> > Could anyone please explain how can I get the subject metadata, which
>> > have
>> > been written by Digikam into an image, using alternative software such as
>> > exiv2/exiftool/etc?
>> >
>> > Best regards, Yuri.
>>
>>
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>> http://www.photonoxx.fr
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