Searching on IPTC core properties
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Le Monday 12 May 2008 20:47:19 Marcel Wiesweg, vous avez écrit :
> Hi, > > in the past there has been demand on searching for certain metadata > properties, mostly those in IPTC Core, but Dublin Core as well. (see below > for a list) > > I am not familiar with the way you are using such properties, so it's > difficult to find out what exactly we should provide. > This means I am looking for: > > - Use Cases and Use Scenarios for working with such properties, searching > in particular > - Sample images, preferably two or three for each use case, with the > affected metadata, so that I can test with real life examples. (you can > send to my private address) Hi Marcel , here is an example that show how I work. I'm not trying to say that this is the right way but this is mine :) I'm not going to talk only about search, so there will probably be ideas for other part of digikam :). First of all I transfer my photos to a temporary directory. Then I use gqview to add some IPTC tags. I use gqview because this viewer is fast and I wrote perl scripts which I can launch directly from gqview. The IPTC tags that I set are: . Source . Copyright Notice . City . Credit . By-line . Headline . Caption I perform this outside of digikam because the photos may have been taken by my wife, my son or myself. My scripts have source, Copyright Notice, Credit and By-line preset depending on the protograph who took the photo, so I just need to select the protograph to set all this settings. I think it will a good feature to have seach kind of "photograph selection". When this is finished, I import these photos in digikam and sets all keywords. I never set City as keyword because it is already sets in the City IPTC tag. When I search for photo I may use keywords (more than one, using either 'or' or 'and' between them), city Headline, Caption or credit (because credit, Copyright and source are similar in my case). I also search photo using exif tags (Lens name, Focal lenght, Iso, Speed, Aperture) I also plan to use scene code (news code) to describe my photos. I think this may be a powerful tools to categorize photos. If I understood well, scene code number uses a hierarchy. A lot of information can be found at http://www.iptc.org/NewsCodes/ For french reader, you can found some explanation at Of course, I think that digikam should include the definition of such scene code and permit to search based on them. That's all for the moment Philippe _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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