iphoto2xmp: Import album descriptions / thumbnails into Digikam

[Jens Benecke-2]

Hello,

I am the author of https://github.com/jensb/iphoto2xmp and I am
wondering how to import iPhoto <= 9.1 style "Event notes" (= album
descriptions) into Digikam - or, better yet, into any XMP compatible
scheme.
Since the descriptions are properties of the respective album and not of
single images, I cannot just add them to the XMP file (which belongs to
a single image).

Right? Is there another way? Maybe creating a SQL script that can be
executed onto the Digikam database offline? It would be a hack, but
better than nothing ... The same goes for Album thumbnails. I would like
to import these to Digikam. I know how iPhoto saves them but how does
Digikam?

Thank you for any help!


Regards
Jens
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Le 27/03/2016 21:20, Jens Benecke a écrit :

> Right? Is there another way? Maybe creating a SQL script that can be
> executed onto the Digikam database offline?

I would really appreciate such script, because it could makes it more
easy to export any data base to digikam sidecar. I think, for example of
piwigo data base.

It's specially useful to be able to move metadata from web apps to local
apps without moving images themselve, allowing to sync comments,
rates... from various collections of the same images

thanks
jdd

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[Jens Benecke-2]

Hi,

what web app are you talking about?
During development of iphoto2xmp I have gained some experience with XMP
files and they seem to work well for image data for Digikam.
Unfortunately there is no error message or log output when the slightest
error in the XMP file causes the parser to hiccup - it's a guessing game.

Maybe I can use that knowledge to help create import scripts for data
downloaded from online image albums too.

Regards
Jens


Am 27.03.2016 um 23:52 schrieb jdd:

> Le 27/03/2016 21:20, Jens Benecke a écrit :
>
>> Right? Is there another way? Maybe creating a SQL script that can be
>> executed onto the Digikam database offline?
>
> I would really appreciate such script, because it could makes it more
> easy to export any data base to digikam sidecar. I think, for example
> of piwigo data base.
>
> It's specially useful to be able to move metadata from web apps to
> local apps without moving images themselve, allowing to sync comments,
> rates... from various collections of the same images
>
> thanks
> jdd
>
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Le 28/03/2016 23:50, Jens Benecke a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> what web app are you talking about?

right now Piwigo. The script would run on the server to gather, for
example, users comments or online added tags.

I use mariadb and have some knowledge of sql database, but mostly for
backup. I could as well run the script against  sql backup of the
relevant database

> Maybe I can use that knowledge to help create import scripts for data
> downloaded from online image albums too.
>

good :-)

jdd

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