[digiKam-users] Tags written by Gimp not read by digiKam

[Steve Franks]

If you tick Write to Sidecars, I would suggest that you remove ticks from
any programs that you don't use.
Steve

On Thu, 14 Apr 2022 at 07:07, Milind Joshi <mmjoshi at iitbombay.org> wrote:

> Thanks Steve.
>
> I had sent a detailed response to Remco with some screenshots. This
> response is still pending moderator's approval, I guess because it had many
> attachments. Is there any other way of sharing images?
>
> I think digiKam writes tag information to the tiff file itself. I haven't
> seen any sidecar (xmp) files being created for tiff files, though they get
> created for .pef and .arw files. In any case I have ticked options, "Read
> from sidecar files, Write to sidecar files (Write to XMP sidecar for
> read-only item only) and Sidecar files are compatible with commercial
> programs."
>
> HTH.
>
> Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2022 14:13:44 +0100
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> From: Steve Franks <stevef48 at gmail.com> <stevef48 at gmail.com>
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> Have you selected Read from Sidecars on the Configure - digikam, Metadata
> Sidecars tab?
> RAW files do usually contain XMP data, it's held in associated .XMP files.
> N.B. Also tick Sidecar names are compatible with commercial programs.
> Hope this helps,
> Steve
>
> On Tue, 12 Apr 2022 at 20:13, Remco Viëtor <remco.vietor at wanadoo.fr> <remco.vietor at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
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> On mardi 12 avril 2022 14:30:12 CEST Milind Joshi wrote:
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> Can digiKam read tags written by Gimp? I have catalogs in digiKam which
> contain RAW (PEF, ARW, DNG) images  These files are tagged using digiKam
> tags. I copy selected files to a different folder for editing in Gimp.
> After editing these image in Gimp, I add some tags to the images in
> Gimp. After adding the tags, I export these files as a tiff files.
> However, when I add the files to the digiKam catalog, these tags are
> missing. However, these tags can be seen in Exifview. I also tried the
> option to "read tags from file option" in digiKam. Still these tags are
> ignored. Is there an option that I need to turn on?
>
> mj
>
> Which metadata tags are added by Gimp? Not the keywords/tags as you write
> them, but the metadata tag names as shown by Exifview (e.g. with EXIV2 ,I
> see
> Xmp.lr.hierarchicalSubject storing my keywords, but so do
> Xmp.MicrosoftPhoto.LastKeywordXMP and Xmp.mediapro.CatalogSets;
> there are four tags that contain the description I added...)
>
> There are a lot of semi-standard tag names and name spaces used to store
> keywords, and by default Digikam only reads some of them.
>
> Remco
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