[digiKam-users] Keyword hierarchy

[Peter Orth]

Frederic, Remco and Marc,
Thanks for the helpful and detailed replies. 
I’ve been messing around with multiple programs for work. 
If I can get around to it, I’ll fire up exiftool and see what the ones I’m working with do regarding hierarchical keywords and report back. It looks like that’s the best/only way to see what works. 

Meanwhile, I work with a flat list of a couple hundred descriptive keywords for photos of locations, and have grown accustomed to it. 
Hotel, fountain, desert, diner, swimming pool, rooftop.
 For me the categories are mostly non-ambiguous and repetitive. 
A hierarchical list would be nice though!
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Peter Orth 
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> On Oct 31, 2022, at 14:07, Frédéric Da Vitoria <davito9w at free.fr> wrote:
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> Peter,
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> Unfortunately, I didn't keep a track of the details of my search, which is strange, I usually do. What I remember is that when I decided to use hierarchical tags, a few months ago, I gathered the names of the free image organizers I could use (I wouldn't even try Picasa, for example) and I checked how they implemented tag hierarchy (if they implemented it). I reached the conclusion that DigiKam's way of doing it (hierarchy elements separated by slashes) was pretty common. Of course my little study was completely empirical, and anyhow, this wouldn't be of any use if you chose to switch to one of the softwares (however rare) which don't understand DigiKam's way of doing it.
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>> Le 31/10/2022 à 17:11, Peter Orth a écrit :
>> Frederic,
>> Is this still the case?
>> Years ago I decided against hierarchical keywords as they were very much not transferable between programs.
>> One of my priorities is keeping my filing system non-dependent on any particular software. This has helped as Iview/mediapro and Aperture have both gone away but my library persists!
>> Is there a name for the implementation that DK uses for hierarchical keywords/tags, and any idea of what other software uses that same system?
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>> Peter Orth
>> 310 413 8267
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>>>> On Oct 31, 2022, at 04:26, Frédéric Da Vitoria <davito9w at free.fr> wrote:
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>>> 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.
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> Frédéric Da Vitoria
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