[digiKam-users] tags

[Leigh S]

Hello,

I have xubuntu 16.04LTS

I have used Digikam to scan for faces and to add people tags

However, I also use Shotwell, and now I cant get the tags from Digikam to Shotwell

I am trying to write them to the files in Digikam so that Shotwell will hopefully see them, but with little luck

I have found that by manually editing the IPTC keyword of a photo in Digikam then this keyword is recognised by Shotwell as a tag.

However, I cant find a way to do this for multiple photos at once, and I would like somehow to transpose the Digikam tags to this IPTC keyword

Could anyone give a simple way of doing this please?

Obviously I am not very adept at this :)

Thanks

[Gilles Caulier-4]

Hi,

Face tags are stored in a dedicated section from XMP (standardized by Adobe), and of course, Shotwell must read this section for inter-operability.

https://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/TagNames/MWG.html#Regions

digiKam code with tags list set :

https://cgit.kde.org/digikam.git/tree/libs/dmetadata/dmetadata.cpp#n1671

If Shotwell do not read the standard, we cannot do it instead (:=)))...

To tag in batch, you can use Exiftool or Exiv2 CLI tool.

Gilles Caulier

2018-03-17 14:11 GMT+01:00 Leigh S <[hidden email]>:

Hello,

I have xubuntu 16.04LTS

I have used Digikam to scan for faces and to add people tags

However, I also use Shotwell, and now I cant get the tags from Digikam to Shotwell

I am trying to write them to the files in Digikam so that Shotwell will hopefully see them, but with little luck

I have found that by manually editing the IPTC keyword of a photo in Digikam then this keyword is recognised by Shotwell as a tag.

However, I cant find a way to do this for multiple photos at once, and I would like somehow to transpose the Digikam tags to this IPTC keyword

Could anyone give a simple way of doing this please?

Obviously I am not very adept at this :)

Thanks

[Leigh S]

Thanks Gilles,

I think you mean that Shotwell doesnt use the right standard? But to be honest that went straight over my head :)

I actually found a way, at least to write the Digikam tags to the IPTC keywords, since I think this wasn't working in the version of Digikam that I had installed on my Xubuntu 16.04

I was previously on version 5.5.0 (I think from the Philip Johnsson PPA - ppa:philip5/extra)

I got the updated version 5.8.0 Appimage

With this updated version, when I did

- Select all the tagged images

- item > Write Metadata to Image

it worked and now all the tags appear as IPTC keywords

However, on opening Shotwell many files have all the people tags and its a real mess

Time to give up on this

Thanks for your help

---- On Sat, 17 Mar 2018 16:43:58 +0000 Gilles Caulier <[hidden email]> wrote ----

Hi,

Face tags are stored in a dedicated section from XMP (standardized by Adobe), and of course, Shotwell must read this section for inter-operability.

https://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/TagNames/MWG.html#Regions

digiKam code with tags list set :

https://cgit.kde.org/digikam.git/tree/libs/dmetadata/dmetadata.cpp#n1671

If Shotwell do not read the standard, we cannot do it instead (:=)))...

To tag in batch, you can use Exiftool or Exiv2 CLI tool.

Gilles Caulier

2018-03-17 14:11 GMT+01:00 Leigh S <[hidden email]>:

Hello,

I have xubuntu 16.04LTS

I have used Digikam to scan for faces and to add people tags

However, I also use Shotwell, and now I cant get the tags from Digikam to Shotwell

I am trying to write them to the files in Digikam so that Shotwell will hopefully see them, but with little luck

I have found that by manually editing the IPTC keyword of a photo in Digikam then this keyword is recognised by Shotwell as a tag.

However, I cant find a way to do this for multiple photos at once, and I would like somehow to transpose the Digikam tags to this IPTC keyword

Could anyone give a simple way of doing this please?

Obviously I am not very adept at this :)

Thanks

[Gilles Caulier-4]

Hi,

You mix two thing :

- The face region that i talk previously

- the face keywords which are in fact a tags string extension to store people names.

Both are driven by Adobe standard, mostly stored in XMP, that DK follow.

Shotwell must support standard in all case, it's a tradition in computer world (:=)...

Gilles Caulier

2018-03-18 8:38 GMT+01:00 Leigh S <[hidden email]>:

Thanks Gilles,

I think you mean that Shotwell doesnt use the right standard? But to be honest that went straight over my head :)

I actually found a way, at least to write the Digikam tags to the IPTC keywords, since I think this wasn't working in the version of Digikam that I had installed on my Xubuntu 16.04

I was previously on version 5.5.0 (I think from the Philip Johnsson PPA - ppa:philip5/extra)

I got the updated version 5.8.0 Appimage

With this updated version, when I did

- Select all the tagged images

- item > Write Metadata to Image

it worked and now all the tags appear as IPTC keywords

However, on opening Shotwell many files have all the people tags and its a real mess

Time to give up on this

Thanks for your help

---- On Sat, 17 Mar 2018 16:43:58 +0000 Gilles Caulier <[hidden email]> wrote ----

Hi,

Face tags are stored in a dedicated section from XMP (standardized by Adobe), and of course, Shotwell must read this section for inter-operability.

https://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/TagNames/MWG.html#Regions

digiKam code with tags list set :

https://cgit.kde.org/digikam.git/tree/libs/dmetadata/dmetadata.cpp#n1671

If Shotwell do not read the standard, we cannot do it instead (:=)))...

To tag in batch, you can use Exiftool or Exiv2 CLI tool.

Gilles Caulier

2018-03-17 14:11 GMT+01:00 Leigh S <[hidden email]>:

Hello,

I have xubuntu 16.04LTS

I have used Digikam to scan for faces and to add people tags

However, I also use Shotwell, and now I cant get the tags from Digikam to Shotwell

I am trying to write them to the files in Digikam so that Shotwell will hopefully see them, but with little luck

I have found that by manually editing the IPTC keyword of a photo in Digikam then this keyword is recognised by Shotwell as a tag.

However, I cant find a way to do this for multiple photos at once, and I would like somehow to transpose the Digikam tags to this IPTC keyword

Could anyone give a simple way of doing this please?

Obviously I am not very adept at this :)

Thanks

[Remco Viëtor]

On dimanche 18 mars 2018 08:46:31 CET Gilles Caulier wrote:

> [Shotwell must support standard in all case], it's a tradition in computer
> world (:=)...
I wouldn't go quite that far (*cough* MS *cough* ;)