Import of Lightroom Keywords?

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi,

Look at the metadata advanced settings page :

https://docs.digikam.org/en/setup_application/metadata_settings.html#advanced-settings

Tags can be routed from different sources. You need to take a look
where the keywords are stored by LR in the Exif | Iptc | XMP using
Exiv2 command line tool (the metadata tag name uses the Exiv2 scheme).

Best regards

Gilles Caulier

Le lun. 8 sept. 2025 à 00:08, Glenn Manuel <gemdancer at fastem.com> a écrit :
>
> Hi,
> I am a DK newbie, trying to figure out how to migrate from Lightroom into DK.
> I am running 8.7.0 in Windows 11.
>
> I have consulted these web pages
>
> Setup of digiKam for Windows compatibility
> https://userbase.kde.org/Digikam/Tutorials/Setup_of_digiKam_for_Windows_compatibility
>
> Migrating from Lightroom 6 to Digicam 7
> https://ocroquette.wordpress.com/migrating-from-lightroom-6-to-digikam-7/
>
> The Lightroom metadata is exported to the XMP files.
> DK imported the data pretty well, except the Keywords
> did not come in quite as expected.
>
> If I select an image and use Item -> Edit Metadata,
> all the metadata is there, and the Keywords are listed in the Keywords section.
>
> However, that Keywords section seems to be useless.
>
> Search seems to work on the Tags, and offers no option to search for Keywords.
> If I Search for one of the keywords, nothing is found.
>
> The DK documentation seems to consider the terms Tag and Keyword as interchangeable,
> but they apparently are quite different.
>
> I was expecting the Lightroom Keywords to be imported as Tags,
> but they were not. The imported images have no Tags.
>
> How do I import the Lightroom Keywords in way that they are useful for searching?
>
> Thanks,
> -- Glenn
>
>