Import of Lightroom Keywords?

[Maik Qualmann]

Also note the settings for reading the XMP sidecars, especially for the file 
name scheme:

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

Maik

Am Montag, 8. September 2025, 08:07:21 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit schrieb 
Gilles Caulier:
> Hi,
> 
> Look at the metadata advanced settings page :
> 
> https://docs.digikam.org/en/setup_application/metadata_settings.html#advance
> d-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_co
> > mpatibility
> > 
> > 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