[Digikam-users] tags/keywords between Adobe Lightroom and Digikam

[Gilles Caulier]

Since 2.0.0, digiKam support import and export of Lightroom tags. This
is done through metadata (from image or XMP sidecar)

Code relevant is here :

- reading :

https://projects.kde.org/projects/extragear/graphics/digikam/repository/revisions/master/entry/libs/dmetadata/dmetadata.cpp#L1134

- writing :

https://projects.kde.org/projects/extragear/graphics/digikam/repository/revisions/master/entry/libs/dmetadata/dmetadata.cpp#L1190

Note : LR tag from XMP is Xmp.lr.hierarchicalSubject

Gilles Caulier

2012/1/2 jag59 <jldeshpande at gmail.com>:
>
> Jim Dory-2 wrote
>>
>>
>>
>> A few versions of Digikam back, I was doing a lot of tagging. I either
>> had tiff images from scans, jpegs from cheaper cameras, then CR2 files
>> from Canon that I converted to DNG before tagging. When I got
>> Lightroom, again a few versions back, it seemed to read all my tags
>> fine. In Lightroom I can search all those tags (keywords in LR) just
>> fine. But now (don't know if it is because of changes in newer
>> versions of one or both these fine programs) neither recognizes the
>> tags/keywords of the other no matter the image format.
>>
>>
>> So at some point I may decide to work with just one of these programs
>> but would like to make sure if I tag in one, I wouldn't then have to
>> redo it all should I choose the other program. So this question is for
>> my convenience, but perhaps if someone can help it will help others
>> too. I did look back several pages in archives but didn't stumble upon
>> the answer.
>>
>> cheers, Jim
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>
> This is not exactly an answer, but I would like to mention that---
> Darktable is a Linux alternative for Lightroom. It is available only for
> Linux. It uses sidecar .xmp, but yet I have not confirmed whether digiKam
> reads properly the tags from darktable's sidecars. I am with DK 1.9 whereas
> sidecar support in DK is in 2.x version, moreover I have read that it (the
> sidecar support in DK) is going to be marked as 'experimental' presently.
>
> Darktable developers are going to add 'area selection' tool shortly which
> will improve it's functionality to a professional software.
>
> Best luck.
>
>
> -----
> Jagdeesh Deshpande.
> Registered Linux user #492893
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