[digiKam-users] Writing full tag path to the image file

[JoãoLeonardo]

Hi everyone,

I noticed digiKam does not write the full tag path on the image files'
metadata.

Example: tags for Gouda and Chevre nested under the tag cheese.
If I apply Gouda to an image (so to speak), digiKam will write on the file
only "Gouda" instead of "Cheese/Gouda"

Is there a way to change this behavior?



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[Maik Qualmann]

DigiKam also writes the full tag path to the metadata, depending on the
metadata element. Which EXIF, IPTC or XMP tag name do you mean? Or with which
program do you look at the keywords in the images and see no path?

Maik

Am Sonntag, 25. März 2018, 16:30:19 CEST schrieb JoãoLeonardo:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I noticed digiKam does not write the full tag path on the image files'
> metadata.
>
> Example: tags for Gouda and Chevre nested under the tag cheese.
> If I apply Gouda to an image (so to speak), digiKam will write on the file
> only "Gouda" instead of "Cheese/Gouda"
>
> Is there a way to change this behavior?
>
>
>
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[Gilles Caulier-4]

Full tag path is write in digiKam XMP namespace :

http://www.exiv2.org/tags-xmp-digiKam.html

Gilles Caulier

2018-03-25 16:53 GMT+02:00 Maik Qualmann <[hidden email]>:

DigiKam also writes the full tag path to the metadata, depending on the
metadata element. Which EXIF, IPTC or XMP tag name do you mean? Or with which
program do you look at the keywords in the images and see no path?

Maik

Am Sonntag, 25. März 2018, 16:30:19 CEST schrieb JoãoLeonardo:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I noticed digiKam does not write the full tag path on the image files'
> metadata.
>
> Example: tags for Gouda and Chevre nested under the tag cheese.
> If I apply Gouda to an image (so to speak), digiKam will write on the file
> only "Gouda" instead of "Cheese/Gouda"
>
> Is there a way to change this behavior?
>
>
>
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[Remco Viëtor]

On dimanche 25 mars 2018 16:30:19 CEST JoãoLeonardo wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I noticed digiKam does not write the full tag path on the image files'
> metadata.
>
> Example: tags for Gouda and Chevre nested under the tag cheese.
> If I apply Gouda to an image (so to speak), digiKam will write on the file
> only "Gouda" instead of "Cheese/Gouda"
>
> Is there a way to change this behavior?
>

That's not what I see in the XMP or jpeg files. There, the applied keywords
appear in several places, sometimes with each element of the 'path'
individually, sometimes as  complete paths, including root tags that I usually
do NOT apply explicitly (as they serve only to organise the tags).

If they appear as a path, I see one path for each level (so if I have a path
'R/a/b/c', I'll have entries 'R/a', 'R/a/b' and 'R/a/b/c' when I applied 'a/b/
c' and R is the root tag, which I did not apply).

So you can basically pick which representation you want when reading the file
(I use that to extract captions and titles when creating a HTML page for a set
of images).

Remco

[woenx]

Also, notice that digikam won't write the full path automatically. You must
click on "Write metadata to file" in order to do so.



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[JoãoLeonardo]

I was using windows explorer to check the details tab on the properties
dialog.
Taking a deeper dive on the metadata I do see the information in there just
not where I was expecting.
That works for me, thanks for your help :)



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[JoãoLeonardo]

Thanks for replying. Taking a closer look at the metadata I see the full path
is actually there, just not where I was looking.
Regarding auto-writing, I setup digiKam to always write metadata to the
file. It does make the program a litle slower but I can live with that.
Thanks for your help!



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