On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Lars Wirzenius <[email protected]> wrote: [...] > I'm a Darktable newbie, and have not looked at the code, but here's > what I've found.
Hey Lars, nice to see you using darktable. I hope you enjoy it. (From [email protected]) > Darktable writes a "sidecar" file, with an .xmp > suffix, with the metadata about the image it has. The same data is > stored in a database as well, but ignore that for now. Lightroom, > for example, also uses .xmp files. However, I don't know if there > is a standard for the fields in .xmp files, and Darktable uses > a bunch of fields that are specific to it, and which Lightroom almost > certainly won't recognize. I assume Lightroom does something similar. > However, some fields look like they follow the Dublin Core system. > Here's a snippet: > > <dc:subject> > <rdf:Seq> > <rdf:li>Stalybridge</rdf:li> > <rdf:li>England</rdf:li> > <rdf:li>UK</rdf:li> > <rdf:li>location</rdf:li> > </rdf:Seq> > </dc:subject> > > This looks like it's possible Lightroom could understand it. > > The .xmp files are XML, so it would be possible to write a tool > to convert the fields to a form that Lightroom understands, for > those fields where a sufficiently compatible mapping can be found. > It might be, of course, that Darktable already uses compatible > fields when possible and that the current fields that are specific > to Darktable have no corresponding fields in Lightroom. I haven't > investigated that. Yes, the idea is using compatible fields for those fields, but I won't be surprised if those are still unreadable in Lr, as it has not been tested AFAIK. And while that can be done image by image, probably an export of the full hierarchy is needed, as I explained in my previous email. Thanks -- José Carlos García Sogo [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_123012 _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
