[digiKam-users] Import category list into Digikam

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Þann 6.9.2021 13:32, skrifaði Remco Viëtor:
> On lundi 6 septembre 2021 15:06:34 CEST Christian Grandclément wrote:
>> Hello !
>>
>> I'm trying to use *Digikam (v. 7.3.0 Win64)*, for replacing my present
>> pictures management software (Photools imatch) that I find much too
>> complicated, akward to use and poorly suited to some very basic fonctions.
>>
>> My present question is *how to import into Digikam the hierarchical
>> categories I'm presently using* (syntax is like
>> _Persons.Family.FamilyCell.Child X_ or
>> _Information.Culture.Civilization.Italian Roman_, with up to 5 levels of
>> indentation). The list of categories is on a _text file_. I need to
>> import it, so as to be able to assign one or several categories to each
>> new picture.
>> The import operation must be automatic, since the category list
>> comprises now over 1200 entries.
>>
> Can your current program save those categories as keywords/tags in xmp sidecar
> files?
> In that case, digikam might be able to automatically read those xmp files when
> you import the images in digikam
> 
> Remco

Are xmp-sidecars a requirement if not using RAW-file formats or video?
Wouldn't Digikam import the hierarchy if the tags are written in the 
JPEG/PNG headers?

Just curious,
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