Moving IPTC data to the comment field

[David Moran-3]

I have a series of photographs that I have geo-tagged and associated
with names via geonames (http://www.geonames.org/). The names show up
in the metadata of my photographs in the IPTC section. I would like to
have the ability to move the Location Name, City, Province, and
Country Name to the comment of the photograph. Does anyone know of a
way to automate the grabbing of specific IPTC fields and moving them
to the comment of a photograph? Would creating a batch process in
digiKam be feasible or will I have to look somewhere else?

Thanks,
David
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[Micha? Smoczyk]

David Moran wrote:

> I have a series of photographs that I have geo-tagged and associated
> with names via geonames (http://www.geonames.org/). The names show up
> in the metadata of my photographs in the IPTC section. I would like to
> have the ability to move the Location Name, City, Province, and
> Country Name to the comment of the photograph. Does anyone know of a
> way to automate the grabbing of specific IPTC fields and moving them
> to the comment of a photograph? Would creating a batch process in
> digiKam be feasible or will I have to look somewhere else?

Hi David, digiKam cannot do this (yet) using Queue batch manager,
but I think it will be possible via scripting ExifTool or Exiv2
(note that Exiv2 cannot write some RAW files, for example Canon CR2).

But, why you want to /move/ this information? These geolocation
names fields are designed to keep such information. Or did you mean
/copy/ those information to comment? Cheers,

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[David Moran-3]

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 1:36 AM, Micha? Smoczyk <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Hi David, digiKam cannot do this (yet) using Queue batch manager,
> but I think it will be possible via scripting ExifTool or Exiv2
> (note that Exiv2 cannot write some RAW files, for example Canon CR2).
>
> But, why you want to /move/ this information? These geolocation
> names fields are designed to keep such information. Or did you mean
> /copy/ those information to comment? Cheers,

Thanks, I will take a look into creating some bash magic using one of
those tools. I did mean copy as I want the location names as a caption
when I upload to Smugmug.

David
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[David Moran-3]

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 7:54 AM, David Moran <[hidden email]> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 1:36 AM, Micha? Smoczyk <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> Hi David, digiKam cannot do this (yet) using Queue batch manager,
>> but I think it will be possible via scripting ExifTool or Exiv2
>> (note that Exiv2 cannot write some RAW files, for example Canon CR2).
>>
>> But, why you want to /move/ this information? These geolocation
>> names fields are designed to keep such information. Or did you mean
>> /copy/ those information to comment? Cheers,
>
> Thanks, I will take a look into creating some bash magic using one of
> those tools. I did mean copy as I want the location names as a caption
> when I upload to Smugmug.
>
> David
>

I used ExifTool to create my captions from the IPTC location data. I'm
now running into an issue of digiKam reading those captions back. I've
even used ExifTool to copy the captions to all of the tags that
digiKam writes captions to, but to no avail. Am I missing some sort of
refresh step to get the captions written by ExifTool read back into
digiKam?

Thanks,
David
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