weradial.blogg.se - Exiftool syntax

Your approach to digital asset management ("DAM") undoubtedly differs from my own. But fixing the bug doesn't automatically fix whatever mess your metadata might have been left before the bug was fixed. As an important aside, this bug was fixed probably since digiKam 3.5 (it was fixed in August 2013) and certainly by digiKam 4.2. Because of a digiKam bug that prevented image keywords and database keywords from keeping in synchronization with one another, my hierarchical keyword information was a mess.

I have used digiKam to manage my photographs since around 2010.

DAM metadata standards have evolved rapidly ("exploded" might be a better term) and some metadata that was valid even five years ago is now deprecated.

My copyright and contact information has changed since I started using DAM software.

I have changed my mind several times regarding what metadata I really want in my image files.Over the years I've used several different DAM softwares, each one of which left behind assorted bits of unwanted, misplaced, or out-of-date metadata.Here's how I managed to mess up the metadata in my photographs:

Part 2 covers my revised ingestion process. Part 1 (this page) discusses how image metadata can get really messy and how to use Exiftool to clean up the mess. This two-part article on digital asset management was prompted by the realization that the metadata in my collection of digital image files was in a sad state. DigiKam DAM: clean up messy metadata skip to main content Nine Degrees Below Photography - color management, photography and painting using free/libre softwareĭigital Asset Management using digiKam and Exiftool: cleaning up messy metadata