[digiKam-users] Multiple simultaneous keyword entry

[Northern Colorado Event Photograph]

Thank you.

On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 11:10 AM Remco Viëtor <remco.vietor at wanadoo.fr>
wrote:

> On samedi 27 juillet 2019 16:15:28 CEST jdd at dodin.org wrote:
> > Le 27/07/2019 à 15:50, Northern Colorado Event Photograph a écrit :
> > > I am not talking about existing tags or keywords, so I can't select
> from
> > > an existing list or import from some other application.
> >
> > ok
> >
> > > As I examine each image, I decide on keywords for that image and those
> > > keywords belong to that image and only that image.
> >
> > for one image and only one
> >
> > if you enter them ass tags, the tg database will soon be filled by
> > unwanted ones...
> >
> > so may be it's enough to enter them in description field?
> >
> > jdd
>
> Indeed, Captions seems more adapted to OP's use case (unless he also needs
> to
> add a title and caption to each image). Searching on terms in these fields
> works. And entering the terms can be done from the main view, so a series
> of
> images can be handled with almost only using the keyboard (PgDn to go to
> next
> image, cursor stays in the last field used, the image metadata are updated
> automatically when you switch to another image).
>
> But it is an abuse of the captions field, so might not work nicely with
> external programs (or agencies using the images).
>
> Keyword use in Digikam seems to be more geared towards the use of
> restricted
> vocabularies, organised in a tree structure. In such systems, the keywords
> are
> re-used rather often, and used to find groups of related images, not one
> exact
> image... In other words, you select appropriate keywords from an existing
> list
> (and only add a keyword when absolutely necessary, if allowed to do so).
>
> Remco
>
>
>
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