[Digikam-users] digikam does not read all xmp metadata

[Jan Köster]

Am Montag, den 11.06.2012, 18:17 +0200 schrieb Jan Köster:
> Am Montag, den 11.06.2012, 17:43 +0200 schrieb Marie-Noëlle Augendre:
> > XMP sidecar files are specific to each application. There is no way
> > one can read the .xmp file written by another program.
> > 
> > Marie-Noëlle
> 
> Well yes. But as far as I've understood that's the reason why there are
> namespaces. And Bibble5, Corel Aftershot, Adobe Lightroom and Adobe
> Bridge can understand these files. I'm not talking about information on
> editing. It's totally clear that this will not work. But it should be
> possible to read keywords, shouldn't it?

I just did a test how digikam is writing metadata to xmp-sidecar files.
Besides other formats keywords/tags are stored in the lightroom syntax.
So digikam can write metadata in "lightroom-style" but not read it? This
doesn't make sense to me.
> 
> > 
> > 2012/6/11 Jan Köster <koester_jan at gmx.net>
> >         Hi all,
> >         
> >         I've just tried digikam 2.6.0 and wanted to know if it can
> >         read
> >         xmp-metadata. Unfortunatly it only works partly.
> >         Metadata in the exif, dc and iptc format are read (like GPS,
> >         IPTC-Location, description etc.)
> >         Metadata in the xmp and lightroom namespace are not read, like
> >         rating
> >         and - most important-  keywords (hierachicalSubject).
> >         I've ticked the "read sidecar' in the settings. Is there
> >         anything else I
> >         have to do to be able to access my metadata from other
> >         applications
> >         (stored in xmp-sidecar files) or is this a bug?
> >         
> >         Thanks for your help!
> >         
> >         Jan
> >         
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