[Bins] Feature proposals: IPTC

[Martin Pohlack]

Hi,

[iptc flags, urgency]

> This could be done with an external script that creates an album.list
> file with pictures names corresponding to the urgency level you want.

Right, this sounds reasonable, but extracting and putting this
information on the details-page still seems desirable.  Therefor bins
would need read support for these fields.

>> - IPTC also allows for keywords, titles, and so on.  These fields look
>>   very  similar to the information which can be added to the
>>   bins-generated xml files, but they are stored where they belong ---
>>   in the image itself.
>>
>>   Bins should populate its xml-files from these IPTC fields, if they
>>   are available.  This way the information can also be put into the
>>   details pages of the various styles.
> 
> Actually, it seems IPTC IIM (the one used by MaPiVi) has some
> limitations : no Unicode

I think you could just utf8-encode your unicode strings and store them
in every text-field.  This is what utf8 is for, after all.

> no customized fields.

This might also be a strength: a standardized set of fields.  Maybe we
don't need customized fields after all?

Martin