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

[Gilles Caulier]

2010/9/8 Chris G <cl at isbd.net>:
> On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 11:27:12AM +0100, Chris G wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 12:03:49PM +0200, Gilles Caulier wrote:
>> > Forget Exif and Iptc. In all case, if you use Exiv2 with XMP support,
>> > all digiKam metadata are stored in digiKam namespace and others
>> > standard namespaces.
>> >
>> > See my screenshot for details: http://www.flickr.com/photos/digikam/4970137661/
>> >
>> All very well but I still need to know exactly what the Exiv2/XMP
>> field names are so that, having set a value with Digikam, I can read
>> it with my script and/or access it from Dokuwiki.
>>
>> Also, are tags, ratings and written this way.
>>
>> Looking at http://www.flickr.com/photos/digikam/4970137661/ I can see
>> under "digikam schema" there is a "Tags List" - how do I work out how
>> to access that with standard Exiv2 tools/libraries.  Similarly for the
>> Rating in Basic Schema.
>>
>> Will all these fields be written by default or are only the "digikam
>> schema" ones written, or what?

Nothing is written to metadata is no options are turned on in setup
metadata config panel. this is the default behavior.

>>
>> Sorry about all the questions, I really appreciate the support here,
>> thank you.
>>
> ... and another issue, I can't find any exiv2 support in PHP.

Exiv2 is a C++ shared library. http://www.exiv2.org

Gilles Caulier