On 07/09/2013 01:32 PM, Tobias Ellinghaus wrote:
Hi!
> The reason I didn't implement more than a subset of DC is that I personally
> don't use these things and was more interested in providing some
> infrastructure to handle this stuff. Before anyone decides to add more fields
> (which would be quite easy) we should seriously review and discuss the design
> choices I did back then.
How?
> [...]
>
>> There're actually several interesting things concerning
>> metadata in dt's readmine, many of them unfortunately quite
>> old.
>
> True, mostly because we developers don't use these things. At least that's my
> guess. Once the design is solid the actual coding should be simple and well
> encapsulated so it would be a nice task for someone who wants to start
> contributing. *hint*
I fear, dt's backend is beyond my capabilities. But well, if it is that
easy as you suggest, maybe...
>> What I was talking about was the management of a controled,
>> structured, hierarchical, vocabulary. Ie. if I change the
>> ordering in the /vocabulary/ by e.g. hooking up another
>> layer or moving an entry around, then that change in the
>> vocabulary should get automagically transfered ot the
>> indexed images. Computers are quite good at that.
>
> Unfortunately it's not that simple.
I know. This would be something that is not trivial.
> You can change the tags that are assigned
> to the images that you currently have in your DB, but these changes will not
> be applied to images that are currently not imported but have the
> corresponding tags in their sidecar files.
Sure.
> So you would end up with
> inconsistent tagging.
Most likely one would have to keep track of the changes for this case.
But I agree, it is definitely not trivial. Especially, if you want to
take files outside the db into account.
>>> I am sure that the db will change over time
>>
>> Sure. Unfortunately, metadata are not very attractive for
>> most of the people.
>
> :)
I tend to admit it is more :( than :)
I just had to convert some 10^4 records with bad metadata...
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