Version: (using KDE 4.2.4) Installed from: MS Windows DigiKam Looks to be a well featured front end to a digital asset management solution, but you might want to consider integrating it with a more robust backend digital asset store like Alfresco which is also open source, and seems to incorporate a number of standards as well. Ideally you would use the custom content models, workflow, smart folders with rules, aspects and other alfresco features, and to also replace the internal DB that Digikam uses and communicate with the back end repository of alfresco by soap, rest, or the new CMIS standard where that information would be held in an enterprise scale repository.
I suppose "bridge" solution like currently tested with Nepomuk is more probable and desired (IMO, not developer point of view).
WARNING : with digiKam 6.0.0 and later, we will not support kipi interface anymore. All tools are now located in digiKam core as well for a plan to provide a more power-full integration with Batch Queue Manager and to be able to export a workflow on a web-service. All export tools are now available everywhere : album view, Image editor, Light table, and Showfoto. Previously, only album view from digiKam core was able to deal with export tools through libkipi. All export tools are now located here : https://cgit.kde.org/digikam.git/tree/core/utilities/assistants/webservices All export tools use now a dedicated interface to communicate with the application : - digiKam (database) : https://cgit.kde.org/digikam.git/tree/core/libs/database/utils/ifaces/dbinfoiface.h - Showfoto (files metadata) : https://cgit.kde.org/digikam.git/tree/core/utilities/assistants/common/dmetainfoiface.h There is not direct use of digiKam database for compatibility with Showfoto. We plan later to provide a dynamic loading of export tools using a plugins mechanism. This will reduce overloading of the internal core libraries. A dedicated devel branch have been created for that, but it's not yet complete: https://cgit.kde.org/digikam.git/tree/?h=development/dplugins But take a care, digiKam export tools as plugins will not be shared with another external application. API will still private and only shared between Showfoto and digiKam core. The experience with libkipi was bad and complex to maintain/extend in time. Gilles Caulier