[Digikam-users] Controlled vocabulary

[Jean-François Rabasse]

On Tue, 28 Feb 2012, John Stumbles wrote:

> But if you structure DigiKam's tags thus:
>
> places
> 	France
> 		Paris
> 			Hilton Hotel
> 				entrance
>
> then spotty teenager looking for
>
> people
> 	Paris Hilton
> 		bodily orifices
>
> will not be disappointed ;-)

Definitely right, John ;)
I'll consider retagging all my picts of P. Hilton that way.

The problem I mentionned (my comment abour interoperabiity) is that this
tree is Digikam specific, not standard metadata. And should I, some day,
handle the tagged image with another software, not aware of 
xmp.digikam.tagslist, the tree structure is lost.


> Question for the DigiKam gurus here:
>
> Say I have a tag heirarchy:
>
> people
> 	Bloggs
> 		Joe
> 		Jane
> 		Jill
> 	Smith
> 		Andy
> 		Betty
> 		Joe
>
> If I tag a picture of Joe Bloggs, by default only the 'Joe' tag seems to get 
> applied to the image. So how do I search for just Joe Bloggs without getting 
> Joe Smith? Or does DK 'know' which Joe is which?

Sounds as the default, for DK, when you tag a picture is to apply only the
current tag "leaf" of the tree. If you wish more, you have to check boxes,
in the tags tab, for Joe and also Bloggs. As far as I could observe, it's
not bottom to top compatible.

Regards,
Jean-François