congratulations

[Gian Paolo Sanino Vattier]

Dear Digikam developers and users,

I am just joining this forum, and I wanted to congratulate everybody
involved into this project developing and improving this excellent
application. Also, thanks to Gilles for his support about the editor and
nikon images (in 2012).

I am getting better with it but I am still struggling with my tags
management since some of them simply do not want to go away from the
metadata, while other just do not go from the database into the file's
metadata. This is happening to me with some files, not all of them, but
I cannot find where is the problem and cannot check each file... anyway,
I understand that this may be due to exiv2lib instead of Digikam.

I guess most people using Digikam are photographers, but I wanted to
share with you guys that this tool is helping many other fields as well.
Like me, as a biologist, I am using it to manage hundreds of thousands
of images assessing wildlife (cetaceans, wild cats, marine life etc)
occurrence, baselines, individual identifications, diseases, etc.
Digikam is one of my main tools and have connected its database with
LibreOffice.base to manage it externally as well (to make charts, apply
statistics, etc). Here you can follow one article about the use of
Digikam on field research: http://tinyurl.com/nvxm9k9

I have followed this great tool now for several years and it keeps
getting better and better.
Thanks!
gps

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[Alan Pater]

Gian, it is very interesting for me to hear that you are using digikam
to manage biodiversity resources. While not a biologist myself, I had
the luck to spend a month in the Ecuadorian Amazon and see the results
from their Camera Trap program.

One interesting thing I found is the ability to store Darwin Core
metadata in the images as XMP. So far only exiftool has support for
the DwC schema, but I have sent in a patch for exiv2 to support it as
well. Once that is done, Digikam (and a lot of other free software
tools) will be able to work directly with DwC tags. I have also
started work on an extension to the metadata editor to support DwC.

By the way, if you (or anyone else reading this) has a bit of time,
the exiv2 patch needs some further testing. I works for me, but it
would be better if more people tried it.

The patch is here: http://dev.exiv2.org/issues/937
And for those on (k)ubuntu, a ppa:
https://launchpad.net/~alan-pater/+archive/dwc

Cheers!
Alan

On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 7:26 PM, Gian Paolo Sanino Vattier
<[hidden email]> wrote:

> Dear Digikam developers and users,
>
> I am just joining this forum, and I wanted to congratulate everybody
> involved into this project developing and improving this excellent
> application. Also, thanks to Gilles for his support about the editor and
> nikon images (in 2012).
>
> I am getting better with it but I am still struggling with my tags
> management since some of them simply do not want to go away from the
> metadata, while other just do not go from the database into the file's
> metadata. This is happening to me with some files, not all of them, but
> I cannot find where is the problem and cannot check each file... anyway,
> I understand that this may be due to exiv2lib instead of Digikam.
>
> I guess most people using Digikam are photographers, but I wanted to
> share with you guys that this tool is helping many other fields as well.
> Like me, as a biologist, I am using it to manage hundreds of thousands
> of images assessing wildlife (cetaceans, wild cats, marine life etc)
> occurrence, baselines, individual identifications, diseases, etc.
> Digikam is one of my main tools and have connected its database with
> LibreOffice.base to manage it externally as well (to make charts, apply
> statistics, etc). Here you can follow one article about the use of
> Digikam on field research: http://tinyurl.com/nvxm9k9
>
> I have followed this great tool now for several years and it keeps
> getting better and better.
> Thanks!
> gps
>
> _______________________________________________
> Digikam-users mailing list
> [hidden email]
> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users

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