Core metadata about images

[Remco Viëtor]

On dimanche 1 février 2026 17:00:26 heure normale d’Europe centrale 
noname at fastmail.net wrote:
> Alan,
> 
> I don’t use heirarchical tags at all. I create individual tags for each
> aspect of the photo, for example: year, person’s name, location, etc. this
> way I can do simple searches on any of those tags, plus you can use the
> search tab on left sidebar to create far more sophisticated searches.
> digiKam is an amazing piece of software!
> 
> Jay
> 
> On Sun, Feb 1, 2026, at 10:27, Alan Seal wrote:
> > I am trying to catalogue and manage my collection of images created over
> > many years, many scanned from prints or slides.
> > 
> > I wish to record  1) names of people 2) places depicted and 3) keywords. I
> > assume the best way to do so is using tags where there is country
> > hierarchy, lists of people and provision for keywords.
> > 
> > (snip)

You can easily have keywords in several trees (that's how I do it, with 
one tree for location, and trees for subject matter, shot conditions, and 
such).

OP's problem is that all those keywords are shown in one (XML) tag.

There may be a (partial) solution with IPTC tags, but digikam doesn't support 
those in an easy-to-use way, AFAIK.