Dear Tobias, Johannes, Alexander and others, Is there a way to specify a metadata standard that does not require programmers to deliver the Rolls Royce of metadata management infrastructure, but which gives the user better functionality compared to the present DC infrastructure? (perhaps half-way to IPTC???). The difficult part will probably be to write scalable software that will enable later expansion to full IPTC without having to rewrite from scratch.... If it were possible to make a start to agree on a basic improvement, perhaps the impetus to work on the metadata side of dt will pick up speed?
The metadata handling aspect is probably an important issue that impedes many users from adopting dt. The issue has been discussed many times and there is (I think) agreement that this is an important issue that affects the usability of dt. Would improving this aspect not be something worth-while to work towards, even incrementally? Kind regards, and I admire the enthusiasm that is evident in so many of the posts on this discussion board. This is what makes dt different from so many other open source projects that that are divided with a multitude of forks and versions, often focused on specific desktops. Willem Ferguson > Unfortunately it's not that simple. 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. So you would end up with > inconsistent tagging. IMO that's even worse. So again, there needs to be a > solid design how to do it. Just starting to write some code that allows to > rename a tag and change all images in DB accordingly would shortsighted and > ill advised. > >> [...] >> >>> I am sure that the db will change over time >> Sure. Unfortunately, metadata are not very attractive for >> most of the people. > :) > > [...] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
