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

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.

“Camera Lens”

“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.

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 you’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