[Digikam-users] Are ratings and tags saved in metadata?

[Gilles Caulier]

2010/9/8 Chris G <cl at isbd.net>:
> On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 09:54:45PM -0700, jag59 wrote:
>> Chris G-6 wrote:
>> >
>> > Are picture ratings and tags saved into the picture metadata
>> > somewhere?  If they are can someone tell me where they are stored
>> > because I want to use them to select pictures to display in other
>> > applications.
>> >
>>
>> Ratings are  stored  in Exif Under Windows Rating,
>> Tags at IPTC under Keywords and in XMP under Subject.
>> This is when seen in Gwenview 2.5.0.of KDE 4.5.1.
>> The application should be able to search these fields.
>>
> OK, thanks.
>
> Is there any way in digikam to see all of the metadata laid out in a
> fashion that makes it easy to see the keynames for each item.  As it
> is there are many ways of accessing the metadata and it's difficult to
> see which are actually the same and which are different.  I.e. one can
> see:-
>
>    Select 'Captions/Tags' on the RH menu and you see Caption, Date,
>    Rating and Tag.
>
>    Select 'Colours' and you see some some colour 'Header' information.
>
>    Select 'Metadata' and there are EXIF, IPTC, Makernote and XMP tabs
>    but, as far as I can see, Captions, Tags and Ratings are not shown
>    here even though they are actually metadat.
>
>    Select 'Properties' and you see yet *another* selection of fields
>    from the metadata (at least I assume that's what is being shown).
>
>
> Then there is Image->Metadata in the menu which allows editing of the
> metadata but again doesn't show the actual EXIF/IPTC keywords so again
> there's no way of knowing what you're actually altering or how it
> relates to the tabs above.  Also, again, ratings and tags can't be
> changed here although they are atually metadata.
>
> Can we not have a way of showing the 'raw' metadata somewhere?  I need
> this so that I can write utilities to access (and set) metadata fields
> in a way that I can use in digikam.

By default Metadata view on RH use user mode to sort exif/iptc/xmp
tags. Turn this mode to "full" using button on the top. That all

Gilles Caulier