How can I get missing EXIF fields added to gallery.xml?

[Roger Parkinson]

Hi there,


I've just started using Digikam to try to generate an HTML gallery for my
photos. It mostly works the way I want but not quite and my problem is in
the EXIF data. I have lots of photos scanned from hard copies and old
slides. All my photos have the Title and ImageDescription fields as well as
the Date/Time Original field filled in with a year. These are mostly
historical photos and the year is all I have.

When I run exiftool I see this (shortened for clarity):


ExifTool Version Number : 12.76

File Name : Scanned Document2.jpg

Directory : .

File Size : 336 kB

File Type : JPEG

File Type Extension : jpg

MIME Type : image/jpeg

JFIF Version : 1.01

Exif Byte Order : Big-endian (Motorola, MM)

Image Description : Very vague date

Title : Mary Ann Parkinson nee Cole, Bristol, England

Date/Time Original : 1860


You can see the Title, Image Description and Date/Time Original showing up
there just fine.

When I look at the photos in Digikam it shows me the Title and
ImageDescription just fine like this


[image: image.png]

I'm not seeing the Date/Time Original but it's promising. However when I
create an HTML Gallery it adds the image description but not the title. I'm
using the classic theme so far and Image Description shows up as a tool
tip. But Title does not appear.

I dug a little deeper and looked at the gallery.xml file which is the
extract the theme xsl files use. The snippet for the image referred to
above in the exif data (again shortened for clarity) looks like this:

<image>

<title>Scanned Document2.jpg</title>

<description>The date is a guess</description>

<date>2024-06-01T12:00:38</date>

<full fileName="scanned_document2_jpg.jpeg" height="1024" width="743"/>

<thumbnail fileName="thumb_scanned_document2_jpg.jpeg" height="120"
width="120"/>

<exif>

<exifimagemake>unavailable</exifimagemake>

<exifimagemodel>unavailable</exifimagemodel>

<exifimageorientation>unavailable</exifimageorientation>

<exifgpsaltitude>unavailable</exifgpsaltitude>

...

</exif>

</image>


The description field has the Image Description but there is no sign of my
Title (except for that tag which has the file name) nor the Date/Time
Original.

I have looked at Settings>Configuration>Metadata>Advanced which seemed
promising but no changes I made there had any effect on the contents of the
gallery.xml file (or anything else as far as I could see).

So my question is: How can I get those two missing EXIF fields added to
gallery.xml somehow?


Thanks for any help.


-- 
*Roger Parkinson*

<http://www.roger-parkinson.com/>
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