[Digikam-users] Re: Linear tags (was: Rating based on quality or content? Ideas, comments?)

[Gilles Caulier]

2011/2/12 gerlos <gerlosgm at gmail.com>:
> Hello everyone,
> Please, when implementing these ideas keep in mind that our photos don't stay just in our digikam libraries, but sometimes they go also in Lightroom and Aperture (...)  libraries, since there is people (like me) working with other people or with different OSes...
>
> I'd really like that any metadata I added to a set of shots using Digikam will ben visible also with other software, so we don't marginalize ourselves.
> At the moment the situation is really nice: at least on a friend's of mine Aperture (didn't try other software) you can see every information you added using digikam, and it's cool.
> Please, keep in mind this need, and don't implement too incompatible metadata...

Sure, this is a priority.

But we need to know where these softwares store these information.
Typicially it's in XMP namespace, but where and which encoding ?

As i have Aperture installed on my macbook, i can check it for Apple,
but i cannot test with all photo management softwares.

it's a good help for digiKam team if users can send images with right
tags set in metadata, to check import into digiKam.

For the export (digiKam to another software), it's another story. But
in all case, we have now a clean implementation which is easy to
adjust for all case...

Gilles Caulier