On Thu, Jul 18, 2013, Tobias Ellinghaus wrote: > > So the first question that needs to be sorted out is "is supporting IPTC > enough?" or do we also need all the exif and XMP fields? And if we decide > that > IPTC is all we need, are there standardized translations to/from exif and > xmp? > Because, if we get fed an image (or sidecar file) that contains relevant > information in those metadata sets, we surely want to keep them. The > alternative would be to support all possible data sets, however, that would > mean that we > 1) have to decide what to do when the user changes the "Author" value in > exif. > Shall it be changed for IPTC, too? > 2) have to find a way to not make the GUI too cluttered and ugly, > > I personally would favour limiting ourselves to IPTC in the GUI and when > finding some other data sets while reading the image we should translate > these > to IPTC.
The one constraint I would add to this is that given an image with EXIF data, the exported file should have the same EXIF data. Otherwise (and particularly given the DT developers' reluctance to extend the file management capabilities) it would be difficult to write tools that manage sets of data. -- Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6 http://rule6.info/ <*> <*> <*> Help a hearing-impaired person: http://rule6.info/hearing.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
