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On 01/08/2012 05:57 AM, Thomas Paris wrote:
Thanks a lot for this most excellent piece of sw, Damon!
You're welcome :) Julien Valroff immediately packaged it for Debian Unstable, so it should make it into Ubuntu 12.04. The "import freeze" from Debian Unstable is coming up in a few days.
On Sat Jan 7 at 23:53 (-0600), you wrote:I'm hoping the next release will allow assigning metadata values like copyright, location, subject etc. to photos.+1 Though it won't be easy to do it in a way that makes sense for all applications out there. Copyright may not be too difficult, but some metadata isn't handled in exactly the same way everywhere. And if you're considering putting the info in an xmp sidecar, do note that not everybody uses the same naming convention. I believe the most common one is Adobe's, where they replace the raw extension with xmp for the sidecar, but darktable *adds* .xmp to the original filename. So, for example, dsc_0001.nef would come with dsc_0001.xmp in the former scheme and with dsc_0001.nef.xmp in the latter. Whatever you decide to do, I'm all for it. Any kind of metadata is better than no metadata at all. Thx again, Thomas
The plan is to write metadata into XMP sidecar files for RAW files and XMP metadata directly into the JPEGS and TIFFs. However I need to figure out if writing directly to DNG RAWs will work or not.
Bibble Pro does the same as Darktable in that it too adds .xmp to the original filename. Bibble Pro is smart enough to read metadata from the xmp with a file named in the standard way. I'm not sure about Darktable.
Can anyone point to a Linux program that is state of the art for entering XMP metadata?
Damon -- http://www.damonlynch.net
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