[digiKam-users] Hierarchical keywords and tags

[Marc Palaus]

I believe the IPTC metadata system does not allow for hierarchical 
keywords. Only XMP metadata can. In PTC they will just be a flat list of 
keywords. (If I'm wrong, please someone correct me).

El 18/3/22 a les 4:50, Mikkel ha escrit:
> 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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