[digiKam-users] Hierarchical keywords and tags

Mikkel kluddermikkel at pm.me
Fri Mar 18 08:50:56 GMT 2022


I have just started using digiKam and is still trying to get a grip on using tags and metadata. My images already had hierarchical keywords in their metadata from another image manager and mostly digiKam added this to a hierarchical list of tags the way I expected. However in some cases the hierarchical keywords are interpreted by digiKam as just one (long) tag. Not sure why this is and it would not be a big deal if I could just edit or delete these keywords in the metadata.

However this is my problem: I can't seem to find a way to edit those keywords in the metadata. From what I can see they are in the IPTC part of the images metadata. Is it not possible to edit this? It seems to be in the editor but when I do edits they are not saved.

Using the tags in digiKam I can of course delete the tags from misinterpreted metadata keywords or merge them. However when I do this it also doesn't look like the tag corrections are actually mirrored in the IPTC keywords in the image metadata? I would like it to be so that I don't have to do this work all over if and when I ever need to add the images to a new digiKam installation.

I have looked in the Recipes Book but have not found anything regarding this particular problem.

Thanks,Mikkel
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