From F-Spot to digiKam....

[Marcin Kasperski]

I managed to move my photos (including tags) from F-Spot to digiKam.
It required some scripting, so maybe it will be of some interest
to somebody:
http://blog.mekk.waw.pl/archives/12-Moving-images-from-F-Spot-to-digiKam.html

I am also curious, why digiKam failed to find tags embedded in images
(for example Flickr extracted them properly). Is it a program bug, my
mistake, or something else?

PS With all those people moving back and forth between Gnome and KDE,
maybe it could make sense to embed similar procedure (read F-Spot
database and extract the data from there) in digiKam?


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[Colin Guthrie-6]

Marcin Kasperski wrote:

> I managed to move my photos (including tags) from F-Spot to digiKam.
> It required some scripting, so maybe it will be of some interest
> to somebody:
> http://blog.mekk.waw.pl/archives/12-Moving-images-from-F-Spot-to-digiKam.html
>
> I am also curious, why digiKam failed to find tags embedded in images
> (for example Flickr extracted them properly). Is it a program bug, my
> mistake, or something else?
>
> PS With all those people moving back and forth between Gnome and KDE,
> maybe it could make sense to embed similar procedure (read F-Spot
> database and extract the data from there) in digiKam?

I think/hope that eventually nepomuk and the realisation of the semantic
desktop will make switching from f-spot to digikam and from rhythmbox to
amarok fairly seamless.... I'm not holding my breath tho' ;)

Col

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[Gerhard Kulzer-3]

On Tuesday 12 August 2008 17:27:44 Marcin Kasperski wrote:

> I managed to move my photos (including tags) from F-Spot to digiKam.

> It required some scripting, so maybe it will be of some interest

> to somebody:

> http://blog.mekk.waw.pl/archives/12-Moving-images-from-F-Spot-to-digiKam.ht

>ml

>

> I am also curious, why digiKam failed to find tags embedded in images

> (for example Flickr extracted them properly). Is it a program bug, my

> mistake, or something else?

>

> PS With all those people moving back and forth between Gnome and KDE,

> maybe it could make sense to embed similar procedure (read F-Spot

> database and extract the data from there) in digiKam?

I import a lot of photos from Photoshop and Aperture with no problems importing the metadata into digiKam (it is rather annoying sometimes as it creates tag trees all over the show, and I have to integrate/delete them afterwards).

So I wonder why you can't read your F-spot metadata. Can you give it a try and run exiv2 on the original images from F-spot?

$ exiv2 -pi *.jpg (or whatever format your images have)

If you see IPTC data then digiKam will see them too. Otherwise I'd guess that there is a problem with the metadata of the images.

Gerhard

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[Gilles Caulier-4]

Gerhard

digikam 0.9.x support IPTC, not XMP. I'm not sure, but i think than
F-spot support only XMP. If yes, this is why digiKam do not import
f-spot tags in database.

Best

Gilles Caulier

2008/8/13 Gerhard Kulzer <[hidden email]>:

> On Tuesday 12 August 2008 17:27:44 Marcin Kasperski wrote:
>
>> I managed to move my photos (including tags) from F-Spot to digiKam.
>
>> It required some scripting, so maybe it will be of some interest
>
>> to somebody:
>
>>
>> http://blog.mekk.waw.pl/archives/12-Moving-images-from-F-Spot-to-digiKam.ht
>
>>ml
>
>>
>
>> I am also curious, why digiKam failed to find tags embedded in images
>
>> (for example Flickr extracted them properly). Is it a program bug, my
>
>> mistake, or something else?
>
>>
>
>> PS With all those people moving back and forth between Gnome and KDE,
>
>> maybe it could make sense to embed similar procedure (read F-Spot
>
>> database and extract the data from there) in digiKam?
>
> I import a lot of photos from Photoshop and Aperture with no problems
> importing the metadata into digiKam (it is rather annoying sometimes as it
> creates tag trees all over the show, and I have to integrate/delete them
> afterwards).
>
> So I wonder why you can't read your F-spot metadata. Can you give it a try
> and run exiv2 on the original images from F-spot?
>
> $ exiv2 -pi *.jpg (or whatever format your images have)
>
> If you see IPTC data then digiKam will see them too. Otherwise I'd guess
> that there is a problem with the metadata of the images.
>
> Gerhard
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[Marcin Kasperski]

> So I wonder why you can't read your F-spot metadata. Can you give it a try and
> run exiv2 on the original images from F-spot?
>
> $ exiv2 -pi *.jpg (or whatever format your images have)
>

  $ exiv2 -pi 100_2162.jpg

  100_2162.jpg: No IPTC data found in the file

For comparison

  $ exiftool 100_2162.jpg

  ... (cut a lot of output) ...
  Subject       : Wierchomla, Marcin
  ... (cut a lot of output) ...


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[Gerhard Kulzer-3]

On Thursday 14 August 2008 16:49:23 Marcin Kasperski wrote:

> > So I wonder why you can't read your F-spot metadata. Can you give it a

> > try and run exiv2 on the original images from F-spot?

> >

> > $ exiv2 -pi *.jpg (or whatever format your images have)

>

> $ exiv2 -pi 100_2162.jpg

>

> 100_2162.jpg: No IPTC data found in the file

>

> For comparison

>

> $ exiftool 100_2162.jpg

>

> ... (cut a lot of output) ...

> Subject : Wierchomla, Marcin

> ... (cut a lot of output) ...

Marcin, I think Gilles put the finger on the incompatibility:

F-spot uses XMP to store metadata (as you show above: no IPTC data), whereas digikam 0.9 uses IPTC for it. Therefore there's is no direct metadata transfer possible.

However the kde version of digikam 0.10b3 is fully compatible with XMP. So, importing F-spot images into digikam 0.10b3 should be straight.

Gerhard

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