Help needed: bulk-tagging pictures in Linux for use in picapport

[Fionn B.]

Hi all,

I am just about to finish working out an ubuntu-minimal-based picapport docker container which I will upload to docker hub later, too.

My intention is to make our pictures shareable in the family, which requires quite some permission granularity. During my first experiments with the new server, though, I found that creating group permissions heavily depends on picture metadata, especially tags. But those tags apparently can NOT be set within picapport, if I do set up the engine directly on the picture volume (no uploading) !?

That puzzling fact leaves me with the problem and question, what software I should use to do some bulk tagging on my existing pictures? Which software on Linux can bulk-tag pictures in a way that picapport recogizes all the tags properly?

And, if I add more tags to pictures later, once the picture have already been imported, will newly added tags in the existing pictures be found then, too?

I hope that there are some picapport Linux user out there who can give advice ;-) kind regards!bulk

[E. Schreiner]

I've sent you an Email about our release candidate V6.2.....

[Fionn B.]

Hello Eric,

thank you for sending the info. However, although the new version has nice new features, it does not solve my original problem, that making proper use of sharing in picapport requires tags which must be set by using external software.

In the meantime I tried putting IPTC keywords into pictures using the very nice tool "mapivi" but after uploading those pictures, the keywords are neither found nor displayed in the picapport metadata display (but they are displayed with other software!). So, apparently IPTC keywords are not extracted. Which leads me to the question what is the right way to embed keywords so that picapport is recognizing them properly? Do they need to be embedded using XMP? And if so, what formatting should be applied?

[Oliver Fels]

For bulk tagging I am using digikam. Both geolocation tags and text tags are parsed nicely by PicApport.