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

[Chris G]

On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 12:37:56PM +0200, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> 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.
> 
OK, I'm slowly getting there, there were some write permission
problems as well as my lack of understanding of Digikam.  I'm now
getting Tags, Ratings, Captions written to my image files.  :-)

> >>
> >> 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
> 
Not a lot of use when writing PHP scripts for Web pages.  However I
can access the exif/iptc stuff so I'm fairly OK now.

Once again, thanks for all the help (and for Digikam).

-- 
Chris Green