[digiKam-users] Keyword hierarchy

[Frédéric Da Vitoria]

Just my point of view: I have been using a software which did not handle 
tag hierarchy for more than 10 years. The list of tags was quite large, 
finding a tag was difficult because they were only sorted in 
alphabetical order. I tried to (kind of) implement hierarchy by adding 
separate tags, for example adding France and Paris tags to a picture of 
Montmartre.

When I switched to DigiKam, I immediately started to use the hierarchy. 
The total number of tags is still as large, obviously, but now it is 
much easier to find one tag. Because of how DigiKam implements the 
hierarchy, I don't need those "intermediate" tags any more, and I 
started removing them from the pictures. Now, the previous picture would 
have only one "Lieux/France/Paris/Montmartre" tag, but I'd still be able 
to retrieve the image by selecting the France or Paris tags in the 
hierarchy.

One other advantage is that you can have several tags with the same name 
but in different places in the hierarchy, of course. This allows to use 
the the same name but for different meanings. This situation should be 
avoided IMO, but sometimes it is difficult to find another fitting word.

The only part which could be better is that there is no standard way to 
implement tags hierarchy. DigiKam's way of doing it is used by quite a 
few other software, but there are others which could be unable to 
understand it. This is not DigiKam's fault, of course.

Le 29/10/2022 à 21:33, Marc Palaus a écrit :
> Hands down, keyword hierarchy. I have several thousand tags, and 
> having them in a flat list would just be a mess.
>
> On Oct 25, 2022 09:45, digikam at 911networks.com wrote:
>
>     DK 7.8.0
>
>     What would you recommend:
>
>     just the keyword or the the keyword hierarchy?
>
>     Thanks
>
>     -- 
>     sknahT
>
>     vyS
>

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Frédéric Da Vitoria
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