Tags as the easy way to classify and locate your media files

Murat
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Tags are the easy way to classify and locate your media files. Multiple tags can be assigned to a single file without taking up additional space on your hard drive.

catalog-tags-camera-lens “Camera Lens” catalog-tags-rating-color-label“Rating” and “Color Label”

The main benefit of tags in Daminion, over the categories in PicaJet, is that separate metadata mapping is employed for different tags.

For instance, once a user assigns Rating 4 to a file, it will immediately be written directly into the file as EXIF and XMP metadata (XMP:MSPhotoRating, XMP:Rating, EXIF:Rating, etc). Daminion follows MWG specification rules here.

Any application (for example, Windows Explorer) that understands metadata, will see your changes.

windows-exif-rating-properties

View changed “Rating” by Windows Explorer

Some of the Tag Mapping Rules:

Author tag mapping:

  • IPTC ByLine
  • XMP DC:Creator
  • EXIF Artist
  • EXIF XPAuthor
  • XMP TIFF:Artist

Once youโ€™ve changed the Author tag of an asset, it will be written into the file’s metadata. That means that all file information will travel along with your file – if you copy or move it.

People tag mapping:

  • IPTC Contact
  • XMP Iptc4xmpExt:PersonInImage

Copyright tag mapping:

  • IPTC CopyrightNotice
  • EXIF Copyright
  • XMP DC:Rights
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