Re: Import from disk and auto-tag

[Stephane Delcroix <stephane delcroix org>]

Dotan,

You can't specify a tag hierarchy. (i.e. you can't say "People: me",
"Place: home", you can just attach tags "me" and "home")
But keep in mind that, in f-spot, all tags are unique.
So, tag your images, and re-organize your tags once imported in f-spot.
(move the tag "me" under "People" and "home" under "Places")

about patching and compiling f-spot, look at:
http://f-spot.org/How_To_Build



On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 17:17 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 24/06/06, Warren Baird <photogeekmtl gmail com> wrote:
> > There's no mechanism to do this automatically - however, there are some
> > patches for bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342137 that
> > will make this relatively easy --- the patch I submitted against the bug
> > will take simple xmp-like "sidecar" files at import and create tags for
> > them.
> >
> > Basically you need to write a script that creates for every file
> > foo.jpg, a file called foo.jpg.xmp - the contents should look like this:
> >
> > <x:xmpmeta xmlns:x='adobe:ns:meta/' x:xmptk='XMP toolkit 3.0-28,
> > framework 1.6'><rdf:RDF
> > xmlns:rdf='http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#'
> > xmlns:iX='http://ns.adobe.com/iX/1.0/'
> > xmlns:dc='http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/'>
> >    <rdf:Description>
> >      <dc:subject>
> >        <rdf:Bag>
> >            <rdf:li>Tag 1</rdf:li>
> >            <rdf:li>Tag 2</rdf:li>
> >            <rdf:li>...</rdf:li>
> >            <rdf:li>Tag N</rdf:li>
> >        </rdf:Bag>
> >      </dc:subject>
> >    </rdf:Description>
> > </rdf:RDF>
> >
> > Then with my patch, when you do the import, the tags will be created (if
> > necessary), and attached to each photo appropriately.
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > Warren
> 
> Great work, Warren. Could you please explain the XML in a bit more
> detail? Specifically, I'd need to add tags for Keywords, People,
> Caption/Title, Description/Comments, and Places. Just as an example,
> how would the XML appear for a photo with:
> Keywords "key1" and "key2"
> People "person1", "person2", "person3"
> Caption "This is the Caption"
> Description "A short description."
> Place "place1"
> 
> If I can see that, then I'm pretty sure that I can figure out the
> rest. Also, how do I patch F-spot? I am not a developer, and I've no
> experience in the matter. Thank you.
> 
> Dotan Cohen
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