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

[Gilles Caulier]

Also, by default, digiKam do not touch your image metadata. Go to
setup/metadata config panel to turn on the right options

Gilles Caulier

2010/9/8 Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>:
> 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
>