On 18/07/2013 04:36, [email protected] wrote: From: Alexander Wagner<[email protected]>
>> >Open source is about collaboration and co-operation. What can we do to >> >help solve the metadata problem? > I fear the learning curve is quite steep here. > > Some helping hand from the gurus out there would be great. > > -- 1) The easiest step towards improving the metadata problem is probably to implement the full set of descriptors of the Simple Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (SDCMES). This specification has about 15 fields, of which most are directly usable in dt. If a subset of the SDCMES is already implemented in dt, then I assume that it would not be too difficult to include all 15 fields? 2) The second step would be to allow the user to choose which of these fields should be displayed on the left hand of the images. This needs to correspond to the fields of the metadata editor on the right hand panel. 3) A third step would be to create a lookup table so that users can locally rename metadata fields for their own collection. For instance, a particular user may perhaps like to rename the SDCMES 'Relation' tag to be 'Country' for his/her own collection. Of course the long term future probably lies in IPTC and ultimately dt would have to support IPTC tags. But maybe the full development of the Simple Dublin Core will make it easier to, afterwards, move on to IPTC?? As far as I can make out, Dublin Core was meant mostly towards documents and not towards media such as images. Ultimately, if dt is to maintain the strong position it has now, the move to IPTC (friendly towards media) is probably a requirement. Is there any one of the dt developers who is prepared to give direction to this conversation? If we could have guidance on what is reasonably easily do-able and what would be much more difficult, then a basic specification or white paper could be drawn up. Once this has been achieved, we hope someone will volunteer to assist with the actual code. Kind regards, Willem ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
