[digiKam-users] tags

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi,

You mix two thing :

- The face region that i talk previously
- the face keywords which are in fact a tags string extension to store
people names.

Both are driven by Adobe standard, mostly stored in XMP, that DK follow.

Shotwell must support standard in all case, it's a tradition in computer
world (:=)...

Gilles Caulier

2018-03-18 8:38 GMT+01:00 Leigh S <leigh at sutherland.pt>:

> Thanks Gilles,
> I think you mean that Shotwell doesnt use the right standard? But to be
> honest that went straight over my head :)
>
> I actually found a way, at least to write the Digikam tags to the IPTC
> keywords, since I think this wasn't working in the version of Digikam that
> I had installed on my Xubuntu 16.04
>
> I was previously on version 5.5.0 (I think from the Philip Johnsson PPA -
> ppa:philip5/extra)
>
> I got the updated version 5.8.0 Appimage
>
> With this updated version, when I did
>
> - Select all the tagged images
> - item > Write Metadata to Image
>
> it worked and now all the tags appear as IPTC keywords
>
> However, on opening Shotwell many files have all the people tags and its a
> real mess
>
> Time to give up on this
>
> Thanks for your help
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ---- On Sat, 17 Mar 2018 16:43:58 +0000 *Gilles Caulier
> <caulier.gilles at gmail.com <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>>* wrote ----
>
> Hi,
>
> Face tags are stored in a dedicated section from XMP (standardized by
> Adobe), and of course, Shotwell must read this section for
> inter-operability.
>
> https://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/TagNames/MWG.html#Regions
>
> digiKam code with tags list set :
>
> https://cgit.kde.org/digikam.git/tree/libs/dmetadata/dmetadata.cpp#n1671
>
> If Shotwell do not read the standard, we cannot do it instead (:=)))...
>
> To tag in batch, you can use Exiftool or Exiv2 CLI tool.
>
> Gilles Caulier
>
>
> 2018-03-17 14:11 GMT+01:00 Leigh S <leigh at sutherland.pt>:
>
>
> Hello,
>
>
> I have xubuntu 16.04LTS
>
> I have used Digikam to scan for faces and to add people tags
>
> However, I also use Shotwell, and now I cant get the tags from Digikam to
> Shotwell
>
> I am trying to write them to the files in Digikam so that Shotwell will
> hopefully see them, but with little luck
>
> I have found that by manually editing the IPTC keyword of a photo in
> Digikam then this keyword is recognised by Shotwell as a tag.
>
> However, I cant find a way to do this for multiple photos at once, and I
> would like somehow to transpose the Digikam tags to this IPTC keyword
>
> Could anyone give a simple way of doing this please?
> Obviously I am not very adept at this :)
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
>
>
>
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