usage scenario - is this possible?

[Tino Keitel-7]

Hi folks,

I'm looking for an integrated solution to manage my photo collection.

Here is my current usage:

1. I copy the files from a CF card to the hard disk
This is done using a perl script that extracts the date and time. The
photos are stored in a directory structure
year/month/year-month-day-hour-minute-second-<some number>.jpg.

Sometimes I also use RAW files (Canon .CRW or .CR2), these are also
handled by the script.

2. I view the pictures
In this directory structure, I view the imported pictures and delete
the bad ones.

3. I create galleries
From those pictures, I select the best and create gallieres in a
separate directory hierarchy. Currently, I just copy the files into the
galliery, but I'd like to use symlinks to save hard disk space. At the
end I rsync the gallery directory to a web server.


Is something like this possible with digikam?

I saw that digikam can import my already existing galleries. I also saw
that is has a nice light table function to view the picures, so that I
can select the good ones and delete the bad onces in a comportable way.

How can I manage the "raw" collection with the directory structure
mentioned in 1. and the albums mentioned in 3.? Should I move the
raw collection to the album directory, and handle 2 forks of the
galliry (e.g. "raw" and "sorted") in digikam?

How can I create a new gallery "foo" in a way that the files in
sorted/foo are just symlinks to the files in raw/? If this can't be
done in digikam, then maybe I could just write a shell script that
replaces the files in sorted/ with symlinks to raw/.

Regards,
Tino
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Le samedi 4 août 2007, Tino Keitel a écrit :
> Hi folks,

Hi !

> [...]
> How can I manage the "raw" collection with the directory structure
> mentioned in 1. and the albums mentioned in 3.? Should I move the
> raw collection to the album directory, and handle 2 forks of the
> galliry (e.g. "raw" and "sorted") in digikam?

In such a situation, I personnaly would manage the directory structure
with the "Albums" concept of digiKam, which exactly corresponds to the
physical structure on the hard drive

But for the 3. I would not duplicate the pictures !
You have the "Tags" feature ("Stichworte" in German digiKam
translation). It let you assignate one or more Tags to each picture of
your collection (using the fourth right tab). So you can create a tag
for each gallery you want.
Then you can use the third left tab to retrieve all pictures that share
the same tag.
In fact it acts something like doing symlinks but with a far better
ability to resolve reverse references.

But this will not let you do a simple rsync to your website : I cannot
see an "export" function to export the list of pictures for example...

My 2 cents,
Guillaume


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[Tino Keitel-3]

On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 17:10:05 +0200, Guillaume Castagnino wrote:

[...]

> But this will not let you do a simple rsync to your website : I cannot
> see an "export" function to export the list of pictures for example...

Maybe there is a way to get the tags somewhere in a shell script, so
that I can generate the albums on demand and rsync them.

Regards,
Tino
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[Guillaume Castagnino-5]

Le mercredi 8 août 2007, Tino Keitel a écrit :

> On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 17:10:05 +0200, Guillaume Castagnino wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > But this will not let you do a simple rsync to your website : I
> > cannot see an "export" function to export the list of pictures for
> > example...
>
> Maybe there is a way to get the tags somewhere in a shell script, so
> that I can generate the albums on demand and rsync them.

tags should be stored in the digikam3.db file (sqlite) at the
collection's root.

In it you have :

"Tags" table that references all the tags.

"Images" table that references the pictures (path of picture can be
found with dirid references in "Albums" table).

and

"ImageTags" that reference the association (image id, tag id).

With this there is a mean to recreate the image list


my 2 cents
Guillaume

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