[Digikam-users] Pre-editing with an Android application

[Remco Viëtor]

On Tuesday 16 February 2016 22:52:01 Marie-Noëlle Augendre wrote:
> 2016-02-16 10:19 GMT+01:00 Sjoerd <sjoerd at sjomar.eu>:
> 
> >
> >
> > For Android you can try F-Stop. It can do tagging and rating.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Sjoerd
> >
> >
> Does it work with RAW files? Because I don't shoot JPG, and I want to
> review my RAWs every day during the trip.
> 
> Marie-Noëlle
> 
(trying to make this a bit more general than just your specific case)

With RAW files, you will be using sidecar XMP files. With those, you can 
run into two different problems regarding import into Digikam, but both 
should be solvable:
1 - file name convention: There are several naming conventions for sidecar 
files, so Digikam must recognise the sidecar files as such.This means you 
might have to rename the sidecar files coming from your tablet _before_ 
trying to import into Digikam. 
2 - the XMP files from your tablet might have the information you want to 
import in different tags than expected by Digikam. That would require a 
transformation of your XMP files to adjust the tags, again prior to 
importing into Digikam. As XMP files are supposed to be XML, such a 
transformation is possible through XSLT. Although I noticed some XMP 
sidecars are _not_ regular XML files, but rather XML fragments, as they are 
missing the "<?xml ..." declaration at the start.

This assumes that Digikam looks for and processes XMP sidecars on import.

I'm using linux, and both modifications could be probably be done with 
fairly simple scripts. For MSWindows, I've no idea (not having worked with 
it for the last 10+ years).

Another gotcha can be importing the raw files from your camera to your 
tablet, not all tablets support USB host mode (aka USB OTG). If your tablet 
doesn't, not much you can do...

Remco.