[Shotwell] Importing Tags

[Tony Willoughby]

I don't think Kphotoalbum exports IPTC tags (I don't think that would 
serve my purposes as I'm interested in the tags I added myself).

I'm a programmer and could probably help out.  Is there an existing API 
into Shotwell?  Or perhaps a structure how to set values directly into 
SQLite?





Adam Dingle wrote:
> Tony,
>> I've just started playing with 0.5.0 and it's pretty impressive.
>>   
> 
> Thanks!
> 
>> I've been using kphotoalbum for several years now and have nearly 9000
>> images tagged with events, people, places, etc.
>>
>> I'd love to make the switch to shotwell, but I can't afford to loose all
>> those tags.  Kphoto stores tags in XML, is it possible to import these 
>> into
>> shotwell?
>>
>>   
> 
> It's not yet possible to import these tags into Shotwell, 
> unfortunately.  Within the next couple of releases we hope to be able to 
> import from IPTC tags embedded in photo files (see 
> http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1290).  I don't know whether KPhotoAlbum 
> can export IPTC tags, however.  A Web search for [kphotoalbum iptc] 
> reveals that there has been some work in that direction, but I don't 
> know whether it's made it into the shipping KPhotoAlbum.
> 
> In theory we could implement KPhotoAlbum-specific importing in 
> Shotwell.  Feel free to file a ticket for that if you like, though I 
> think we would definitely prioritize that below importing from IPTC 
> tags, which are supported by many photo applications.
> 
> adam
> 

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