2009/9/10 Bob W <[email protected]>:
> Who, what, where, why to begin with. No need for when because it's already
> in the metadata.
THat's the basic idea, yes. :-)
> LR 1 had a very useful way of setting up keyword taxonomies, but I think
> that got dropped somewhere along the line. It was useful because I could
> just keyword something as 'Greenwich' and it would automatically be included
> in searches and sets on London, England, UK, Europe, The World, etc. as well
> as Cities, River, Thames and so forth.
I never saw the LR1.
In v2, you can create a text file with a certain indented format, that
will import to LR as a hierarchy. It works like this:
Animals
Pets
Cats
Dogs
Livestock
Pigs
Horses
If you assign the keyword "Horses" to a picture, it automatically also
gets Animals and Livestock.
If you want a keyword "container" that's supposed to be just a
placeholder for terms, not a keyword you can enclose it in square
brackets, eg. "[Animals]". Assigning the keyword "Horses" to an image
will then make LR supply Livestock, but not Animals.
Further, you can supply synonyms by using curly brackets:
[Animals]
....
Livestock
Pigs
{Swines}
Horses
{Equines}
"equines" is now a synonym for Horses, meaning that when assigning
"Horses" to an image, it also becomes searchable for the synonym.
This system is very flexible, and when importing keywords, LR will
even fit new keywords into the existing hierarchy on the "leaf" level,
if all the "branches" are the same. That is, if you create an updated
vocabulary outside LR containing more livestock species, LR will
assimilate it like this:
[Animals]
....
Livestock
Pigs
{Swines}
Horses
{Equines}
Cattle
{Cows}
{Bulls}
It gets the synonyms right too. :-) But if you create a new branch
like "Hoofed animals" and move "Horses" to this branch, LR will not
understand. Then you end up with Horses in two places:
[Animals]
....
Livestock
Pigs
{Swines}
Horses
{Equines}
Cattle
{Cows}
{Bulls}
Hoofed animals
Horses
{Equines}
My point with all this is that inconcistencies can develop, and I sort
of imagined that many people must have seen this already and developed
a sort of best practice.
> Have a look at some of the pictures on Magnum's website
> (www.magnumphotos.com) to see how they've done. They seem to be able to
> cover things quite well with a minimum of words.
Will have a look. Thanks for the tip.
Jostein
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