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

[Gilles Caulier]

The lead XMP namespace is "digiKam". We store all metadata that we cannot
store in usual XMP namespaces. Start by this one.

http://www.exiv2.org/tags-xmp-digiKam.html

Gilles Caulier

2016-12-27 20:14 GMT+01:00 Erick Moreno <erickmoreno at gmail.com>:

> 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
>
> []'s
>
> 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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