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

[Andrew Goodbody]

OK, Gilles, but this does not explain why Jim cannot enable reading from 
.xmp sidecar in his digikam, that option is greyed out for him.

Andrew

On 02/01/12 12:36, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> 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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