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

[Maik Qualmann]

Look in the advanced metadata settings and move the XMP-dc entry to the top of 
the list of keyword tags. In current digiKam versions it is also possible to 
activate reading of all keyword tags from the list.

Maik

Am Freitag, 15. April 2022, 12:41:59 CEST schrieb Milind Joshi:
> Thanks Remco,
> 
> OK. Here we go. I checked with ExifTool and the tag that was written by
> Gimp appears in two places: XMP-dc|Subject and IPTC|Keywords and nowhere
> else.This tag is not read even if I execute the "Item|Reread Metadata
>  From File" command from digiKam. Interestingly, if I execute
> "Item|Write Metadata to File" command, the tag is removed from both
> XMP-dc|Subject and IPTC|Keywords!
> 
> HTH. Let me know if you still need the screenshots and I will upload
> them to Dropbox.
> 
> On 14.04.2022 09:58:40 pm, Remco Viëtor wrote:
> > On jeudi 14 avril 2022 18:18:25 CEST Steve Franks wrote:
> >> 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.
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> To share a lot of images, you could put them on Flickr, or Dropbox
> >>> (other
> >> 
> >> file sharing services are available), and share a link to them.
> >> SRF
> > 
> > Two things:
> > - if you tick the "Write to XMP sidecar for read-only item only", you
> > won't
> > get a sidecar for a tiff file, it's considered a writable format... The
> > "Sidecar files are compatible with commercial programs" then also becomes
> > a
> > no-op (as there is no sidecar...).
> > 
> > And I thought you problem was that Digikam didn't *read* metadata, written
> > by Gimp.
> > 
> > - I don't really need screenshots anyway, what you need to figure out is
> > which metadata tags the Gimp uses for keywords (use Exiftool or EXIV2 for
> > that). Then you can check if those are read by digikam.
> > 
> > If that doesn't work, I'd rather see a sample file which has the problem
> > you describe. Even a shot of a white piece of paper with a few keywords
> > added in the gimp should work...