[Digikam-users] Digikam and Identity

[Guy Stalnaker]

Gilles,

Thanks for your reply. Eventually I was able to understand your reply.

I see that one can create a template containing this type of Identity 
information. I have done this. But how does one use it? I note two 
apparent places (from the menubar Album -> Write Metadata and, with 
images selected, from the menubar Image -> Write metadata to selected 
images), yet neither option provides a way of selecting what metadata 
data to write. I have created a "PersonalData" template and entered 
appropriate information and copyright and licensing information, and I 
have used both of these methods on a set of images, yet the images do 
not appear to have the data in the PersonalData metadata template 
applied to them.

I do see the Edit Metadata options with selected images, but that would 
be far, far to cumbersome a process when one has thousands of images one 
wants to begin managing with Digikam. I'm sure that there exists a 
workflow for first time users of Digikam by which one gets existing 
images in shape with the desired metadata though as present I've been 
unable to discover it using the documentation provided.

Regards,

Guy

On 02/12/2012 03:01 AM, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> All is in setup/Template view from configuration dialog
>
> Gilles Caulier
>
> 2012/2/12 Guy Stalnaker<jimmyg521 at gmail.com>:
>> All,
>>
>> I'm having an odd issue with configuring digikam.  I have:
>>
>> Kubuntu 11.10
>> KDE 4.7.4
>> Digikam 2.1.1
>>
>> This is the default install with the kubuntu distro.  I have now looked at
>> three different versions of the documentation:
>>
>> 1. One local which shows as version 1.2 (Revision 1.2 (2010-02-20)
>> 2. One found
>> on http://docs.kde.org/development/en/extragear-graphics/digikam/index.html,
>> also version 1.2
>> 3. One from
>> the digikam.org website http://docs.kde.org/development/en/extragear-graphics/digikam/digikam.pdf(which
>> does not provide a version)
>>
>> All three describe Identity settings one can use to tag images imported into
>> digikam:
>>
>> <quote>
>> Automatic metadata generation
>>
>> How to go about all this metadata business? Firstly, there are already a lot
>> of automatically generated metadata: EXIF data and Makernotes. If you have
>> configured digiKam with your identity section all imported images will be
>> imprinted with this data set which includes copyrights, all automatic.
>> </quote>
>>
>> This metadata is set via the Settings ->  Configure menu, e.g.,
>>
>> http://docs.kde.org/development/en/extragear-graphics/digikam/using-setup.html#author-identity
>>
>> This has a screen shot that clearly shows an Identity section (and I assume
>> that all of this documentation is referring to this exact section).
>>
>> I very much want to use this ... yet my installed digikam does not have it!
>> I see this set of options on my Configure window:
>>
>> Database
>> Collections
>> Album View
>> Album Category
>> Tool-Tip
>> Metadata
>> Templates
>> MIME Types
>> Editor Window
>> Editing Images
>> RAW Decoding
>> Saving Images
>> Color Management
>> Light Table
>> Slide Show
>> Cameras
>> Kipi Plugins
>> Miscellaneous
>>
>> But no Identity.
>>
>> I've tried using the philips PPA to get the latest and hoping thereby to get
>> a version of digikam with this missing Identity option, but there were
>> numerous issues with dependencies and a conflict with an existing installed
>> library and after several hours wrestling with it removed the PPA and
>> reverted to the default digikam. Note that digikam works very well and it's
>> only this one feature, so far as I can tell, that is lacking.
>>
>> I also searched the digikam-users list archives going back 1.5 years and no
>> posts include 'identity' in the subject line, so perhaps I am the first
>> (?!?) to see this.
>>
>> Anyone have any ideas either how to fix this lack or some workflow that uses
>> other options to set these Identity metadata values.
>>
>> Also, if I have no Identity configuration option, how can I apply this same
>> type of Metadata to my existing library?
>>
>> My thanks in advance.
>>
>> Guy
>>
>> --
>> "There is only love, and then oblivion. Love is all we have
>> to set against hatred." (paraphrased) Ian McEwan
>>
>> Guy Stalnaker
>> Jimmyg521 at gmail.com
>>
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Guy Stalnaker
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