Version: (using KDE KDE 3.5.4) Installed from: Ubuntu Packages OS: Linux As I understand, Digikam 0.9.x uses a slash (/) as a separator in hierarchical IPTC keywords like food/fruit/banana. Other programs like IMatch (http://www.photools.com/) or Mapivi (http://mapivi.sourceforge.net/) use a dot notation instead like food.fruit.banana. When reading IPTC keywords that have been generated by these programs, digikam does not recognise the hierarchical structure. This - to my opinion - is a considerable obstacle for people who think about migrating to digikam after having tagged a large number of pictures with one of the aforementioned programs. Could it be possible to add import and export functionality for dot notation in hierarchical IPTC keywords, or, even better, an to add an option to configure digikam in a way that it generally use a dot instead of a slash as keyword seperator itself?
But how they make difference between dot in tag name and dot separator?
Totally agree with Mik. dot do not be used as separator. In fact i will close this file when i will commit my by patch on my computer about to handle Xmp metadata everywhere in digiKam for KDE4 (not KDE3 : nothing is changed) A digiKam Xmp namespace wil lbe used to store Tags Path list in an Xmp structure. We will not use separator (thanks to xml (:=))) Iptc keywords will not be used to store the Tags Path list, but only the Tags Name. Of course in charge to mapivi and photools to support Xmp and to be able to import digiKam namespace... But this is not the problem of digiKam project to support commercial applications. The interoperability is provided by the great Xmp framework, that all... Gilles
SVN commit 720609 by cgilles: digiKam from trunk (KDE4) : XMP metadata management with database. This is the first stage to control XMP metadata contents with Database contents and vis versa. This code handle XMP with current Database schema witch still the same than 0.9.x. Marcel work currently on the new databse schema describe on the OpenOffice document available at this url : http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/extragear/graphics/digikam/DBSCHEMA.ODS?view=log The code will be adapted later by Marcel to handle more XMP tags according with this new schema. This is the list of current changes : - Preparing code to handle strings hosted in different languages (comments for example, dixit B.K.O #98462). - Handle all Xmp.exif and Xmp.tiff tags has Exif metadata content to get photo informations set by camera. - Do not set Iptc.Urgency tag with Rating value, but use standard Xmp.Rating tags instead. Import of Iptc.Urgency as Rating still running if Xmp metadata are not available. (B.K.O: 134206). - Preparing code to handle Xmp strings set different authors(comments for example, dixit B.K.O #134476). - Set the Tags name as Xmp.subject (keywords). - Set the Copyright/Authors information in Xmp tags (schema inspired from Adobe Photoshop 7.0). - Store Tags Path List into a dedicaced digiKam.org Xmp namespace as a sequence of strings. Do not use Iptc.Keywords for that. Import from Iptc still running if Xmp metadata is not available. This way is very important to restore properlly in database all tags assigned to an imported picture. There is not strings size limitation with Xmp and char encoding is always UTF-8. Nothing will be lost now. - Xmp is always stored in pictures format witch support this metadata format : jpeg, png, and tiff. All these changes require to update libkexiv2 and Exiv2 from trunk to compile and run digiKam properlly. CCMAIL: digikam-devel@kde.org CCMAIL: marcel.wiesweg@gmx.de BUG: 134206 BUG: 149966 CCBUGS: 98462 CCBUGS: 132362 CCBUGS: 91811 CCBUGS: 134476 CCBUGS: 136260 CCBUGS: 146714 M +59 -44 digikam/metadatahub.cpp M +1 -1 libs/database/collectionscanner.cpp M +127 -71 libs/dmetadata/dmetadata.cpp M +5 -4 libs/dmetadata/dmetadata.h WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=720609