Importing data from Picasa into Lightroom?

Hello,
I've been using Picasa as my main photography program for the last couple of years. Now I have many thousands of RAW pictures with labels and tweaks (brightness, contrast, cropping, etc).
I'd like to import all of that data into Lightroom. Is there a way to do that? Even if there isn't an official way, I know the Picasa data is very open (ini files). Maybe there's a user-created script to do the conversion?
Any pointers appreciated because I'd really like to switch over, but I can't afford to lose all that data.
Cheers.
--Noel

I know of none, but I have to warn you that while Picasa is relatively open, it does no color management whatsoever (shame on you google - very disappointing) and any edits you did to brightness and such are likely to be useless in any properly color-managed app. Regarding the labels, which are probably relevant, there is a chance that picasa can export the industry standard and open format xmp sidecar files. Perhaps a little googling will turn up some tips.

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