Bug 200427

Summary: digikam ,iptc, tags, hierarchy disappears
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: Philippe ROUBACH <philippe.roubach>
Component: Metadata-IptcAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG    
Severity: normal CC: caulier.gilles, qwq121qwq
Priority: NOR    
Version: 1.0.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In: 7.5.0

Description Philippe ROUBACH 2009-07-16 12:14:04 UTC 
Version:           0.4.0 (using 4.2.96 (KDE 4.2.96 (KDE 4.3 RC2)), Mandriva Linux release 2010.0 (Cooker) for i586)
Compiler:          gcc
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.30-desktop-2mnb

i put this as label in the right panel:

Architecture/Architecte/Eric Dubosc

i found this in iptc

Eric Dubosc,Architecte,Architecture

i found this in xmp

Architecture/Architecte/Eric Dubosc,Architecture/Architecte,Architecture

hierarchy disappeared in iptc
Comment 1 Philippe ROUBACH 2009-07-16 12:14:34 UTC 
digikam 1.0.0b2
Comment 2 Philippe ROUBACH 2009-07-16 12:30:27 UTC 
with digikam 0.9.6 and kipi-plugins 0.1.7

in iptc i found this

Architecture,Architecture/Architecte,Architecture/Architecte/Eric Dubosc
Comment 3 caulier.gilles 2009-07-16 13:12:03 UTC 
With digiKam >= 0.10.0, we support XMP.

tags path is now saved in XMP digiKam namespace. IPTC keywordsdo not host full tags path but only tag names.

Why ? Because XMP is more POWERFULL than IPTC. UTF-8, no stings size limitation, etc... IPTC schema is also ported to XMP.

In other words : IPTC become obsolete and is replaced by XMP. That all...

Gilles Caulier
Comment 4 Philippe ROUBACH 2009-07-16 14:18:08 UTC 
one more time

it's obsolete for you, Adobe, professionals etc.

who uses Adobe suite at home ? and with linux ?

it is not obsolete for many Mr John and many freewares (yes not professional ones) in my case picasaweb
Comment 5 qwexy 2010-01-03 20:29:25 UTC 
Hey

I thought the hierarchy of meta data was gone and was going to report a bug, when I read this report.

To add a comment:
If someone else is thinking the same like I did, simply switch between "human-readable list" and "complete list" in the XMP view.

If you have added meta tags with a beta version of digikam, you should rewrite the meta data into your photos (select from the menu) in order to save the hierarchy.

@Philippe: Hopefully other freewares are going to upgrate to XMP

Regards