writing a caption to a jpeg file so that digikam will recognize it

[Erick Moreno]

Usually DK uses multiple places to save the same information to improve
compatibility with other softwares (lightroom, acdsee...).

You can do the same, but I think you can start with dc:description.

According to the documentation: http://www.exiv2.org/sample.html  this must
work:

set Xmp.dc.description This is a picture of a person

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On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 4:52 PM, Jim Gomi <gomi at mailup.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 2016-12-27 at 12:59 +1100, Simon Cropper wrote:
> > On 27/12/16 08:35, Jim Gomi wrote:
> > > How do I write a caption into a JPEG file's metadata in such a way
> > > that
> > > digikam will see it and recognize it as a Caption?
> > >
> > > I would like to do this using some scriptable method such as a
> > > python
> > > module or a command-line utility like exiftool or exiv2.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Hey Jim,
> >
> > Back engineer the tag data.
> >
> > Create a caption in digikam, save the data to the JPG file (normal
> > behaviour for digikam; see settings if this does not already happen)
> > then use exiftool (windows) or exiv2 (linux) to extract the metadata
> > and see what tag it was stored.
> >
> > --
> > Cheers Simon
>
>
> I tried that. E.g., if I extract the metadata using
> exiv2 ex IMG_0910.JPG
> then I get a bunch of complicated stuff including:
>
> <rdf:li xml:lang="x-default">This is a picture of a person</rdf:li>
> <exif:UserComment> <rdf:Alt> <rdf:li xml:lang="x-default">This is a
> picture of a person</rdf:li> </rdf:Alt> </exif:UserComment>
> <dc:description> <rdf:Alt> <rdf:li xml:lang="x-default">This is a
> picture of a person</rdf:li> </rdf:Alt> </dc:description>
>
> So it seems that the caption has been placed in multiple tags, and I
> don't know how to write to those tags.
>
>
>
>
>


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