Hi, I have a few thousand pictures I'd like to start importing into some sort of photo management program, and shotwell looks like a good place to start. My new Fedora 15 system has version 0.10.1 installed. I have some JPG images that came from 35mm/scanner, some JPG images that came from my digital camera (Rebel XT/EOS 350D), and some CR2+JPG images from that same camera. I've never used the CR2 images before, but it seems like I should import those to shotwell where I have them, rather than importing the JPG files.
I have decent shell and perl scripting abilities, and over the years I've stored a few pieces of metadata in a tab-separated "database" file that points to some of the images. I would like for shotwell to recognize these when I import the images, so I don't have to enter it again: 1) captions: plain-text, sometimes containing an embedded URL (in HTML <A HREF=""></A> style) 2) "album" groupings: some images are associated with one or more of what I called picture "albums" 3) location: some sort of geographic name like a city and state 4) date taken: this is of course in the EXIF tags of files from my digital camera which I assume shotwell will recognize, but I have this in a separate file for images that came from my 35mm camera So should I write a one-time script to generate .xmp sidecar files for each image, containing this metadata I want to preserve? Or should I use exiftool to push the metadata back into the JPG/CR2 files? And either way, what are the "standard" four field names that the above metadata should go into? Suggestions appreciated. Noah _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
