[Digikam-users] Best way manage free form information about the content of an image?

[Simon Cropper]

Hi All,

Sorry for the tardy reply. I had some issues with getting mail from the 
list. Hopefully it is all fixed now.

Thanks for the reply Remco and Shrinivasan.

*Remco*, good advice. This matches with what I expected.

One thing I should of mentioned is that I use Linux (Ubuntu).

I was aware of Exiftool. I used this package alot on Windows before 
migrating to Linux. Although it mentions operating on Unix systems there 
are no notes on how to get it operating on Linux.

I looked and guess what I have exiv2 on my system. I suppose it was 
installed as a dependence when I installed digikam. This looks good. I 
will need to play with this to see if I can write a script in bash or 
python to get my data out again.

*Shrinivasan T*, thanks for the extra links. Why do you suggest IPTC 
tags over others available? Also how you you select one over another in 
the configure dialog? I checked 'caption' in the IPTC section of the 
configuration window but nothing appeared in the IPTC section of the 
metadata area to the right of the photographs. If I select the 
'Captions/Tags' option I can see data but this appears to be stored in 
the database despite me checking 'save image captions in metadata 
embedded in files'. Are you able to point me to a explanation of how to 
set this up correctly?

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Cheers Simon

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