IPTC Data vs keywords: Is it necessary to enter both?

If IPTC data fields, say for city, country, caption, etc. are used to enter various types of metadata for a photo. Is it necessary to also add such data as keywords (which, of course, are technically IPTC data, too)? If both types of data (keyword and IPTC) are always with the image, will a "keyword" search find matches with words in the IPTC data as well as actual, entered keywords, or does keyword mean Keywords only? It seems like a "belt and suspenders" approach to enter, e.g., "Kabul", "Afghanistan", and "surgeon" in the keywords if all those words are in, say, City, Country, and Caption.

Values/descriptions should be saved into dedicated tags only -otherwise there will be a mess!
For locations (in general) where photo was taken, there exist dedicated tags: Country, State, City, Location. Entering location name into Keyword tag will just cause confusion.
Just for example, if shot was taken in US city "Salt Lake City", then correct tagging is:
Country= United States
State= Utah
City= Salt Lake City
Location= Lindsey Park
If you write "Salt Lake City" as keyword (into Keyword tag), then everytime you search (by keyword) after "Lake", this photo will appear (even there's no lake on it).
Bogdan

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IPTC data, keywords and captions

I used lightroom 4 for all my tagging/labelling and uploading work at sporting events.
It has always worked flawlessly and I was very happy with it, however, I just had to reset my laptop due to a harddrive failure so have had to download Lightroom 5 instead.
I cannot seem to get the IPTC template to attach to the files when I import them.
I usually setup a preset for the game I am at with some general keywords but most importantly the IPTC data for copyright and payment purposes.
Today I was not able to get this data to copy to any of the imported files at all and had to do it all manually which is extremely frustrating and time consuming.
To get the template into lightroom in the first place I used to save the .xmp file in a new folder. Then I would copy a jpeg image into that same folder and name them the same file. Then when I import the jpeg into lightroom I could see all the IPTC data and create a new template for each game/event from that.
Can anyone advise please?!

Hi Pete,
Thanks for the email.
Yeah I created the same template I would have done in lightroom 4. I usually save it and then apply it automatically to all images upon import but it simply wasn't attaching anything to them.
I even tried syncing it across from other photos and it wouldn't copy.
Do you have any suggestions or even a guide on how to make the iptc template from scratch?!
I'm not shooting this weekend because I don't have it sorted yet but have a rugby match next weekend and the north east derby (Newcastle vs Sunderland) so need to sort it by then or I'll need to get photomechanic which I don't want to do!
Thanks
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How to add IPTC data to multiple photos w/o overwriting other data?

I need to see if there's a way to add IPTC data to one or more fields to mulitple photos without disturbing the other fields' data that's already there. For example, I've keyworded & captioned my images, but now would like to add the City or the Country to all the shots, or a group of shots.
Conventional Lift & Stamp will override the keyword & caption field info on the stamped images, which I don't want. How to I lift & stamp other select fields? I sure don't want to have to type in the city or country on hundreds/thousands of images!
Randy
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Thanks for the reply.
In the Lift & Stamp HUD, under the IPTC heading,
there's no way to de-select the sub-categories of
Caption & Kepyword, leaving just State (or other
fields which don't seem to be even present). One can
de-select the major categories of Keywords, Caption,
IPTC, etc. but not the subcategories. This is the
problem I'm running into -- no way to just add
additional data in select fields.
Unless I'm missing something.
Indeed! Aperture does not make this at all obvious, but with any line highlighted in the Lift & Stamp HUD just hit the "delete" key and that line is gone. If you delete a category (line with a checkbox) the whole category goes, if you expand a category you can delete individual lines, whatever you like. Also very handy for adjustment stamping when you don't want to stamp a clone job, just white balance.
It remembers what you have removed until you do another Lift.

IViewMedia Aperture 2.1 Sync IPTC Data

Hi, I just have realized,
because of the missing Annoture Update, I have to annotated all pictures in Aperture again.
Now when I played around withe the new “EXIF Update from Master” in AP2.1, maybe it could help.
I just realized, if I sync the data back to the RAW or JPEG files in iVIew, nearly all IPTC will be automaticaly updated in AP2.1 (without clicking Update EXIF from Master).
The only big problem is, the keywords and rest of annotations in AP2.1 don’t merge and will be displaced from the new synced data from iView Media.
The good thing is, the wrong IPTC date code is also displaced from iViewMedia so you will have the right IPTC date in Photoshop and GraphicConverter.
Conclusion: AP2.1. still haven’t a proper/complete IPTC code, be aware by syncing!
P.S. If you just use the new “Update EXIF from Master” command in AP, without sync the data in iView back to the masters, the keywords and other annotations won‘t be touched.

1st Don't panic. I have a 55,000 image database which started acting flakey.
I have some disk tools which anyone should have if working with critical data. Remember the Library is not a single file.. if you look inside it's just a series of folders. You may or may not do what I did depending on the level of safety needed. I'm a wedding photographer and it had to be high since I am working on some pictures.
1: Used "Data Rescue II" to make an image of the 500gig mybook drive to another drive. Attached to the Library and made sure I could see it.
2: Ran Apples Disk Util.. and it couldn't fix
3: Ran Drive Warrior and it fixed the drive tables (original disk)
4: Ran Apples Disk Util.. it worked with no errors
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I found the last import of pictures had some corrupted pictures. I moved that project to another drive by dragging the project. Then I deleted the project from the library (remember I still have a backup)
6: Opened Aperture and rebuilt the database
7: Rebuilt the Vault (backup)
8: I am running "iDefrag" now to defrag all the little file pieces in the library
remember - be methodical always think and make sure you have a backup... if nothing else export to DVD files.

Synchronisation IPTC Metadatas and keywords

I have one catalogue with 13.ooo DNG pictures of my archive. In this catalogue I put 13.ooo JPG pictures with the same file name. Difference of cause .dng and .jpg As all JPG pictures contain all IPTC informations and keywords too, I want to import these informations to the DNG files. Up to now I click one jpg picture at the time, synchronize IPTC Datas with the corresponding dng. Then copy keywords and paste them into dng. A tool for synchronisation would be really great to optimize older archives. At least to put keywords into the synchronisation dialogue should not be difficult and would be a timesaver.

Sigurd den Haan:
Welcome to the iView Forum. Where are you importing from? Another application? Are you adding keywords in that other application? If not, then where?
No knowing the answers to those I will suggest that you do not use the auto-rotate in the camera. It has caused different problems in iPhoto, specifically the use of those images in other applications that do not read those auto-rotate tags.

Is there a way to edit IPTC data of an image with AppleScript?

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p.

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When I have the calendar tab up and a date with pictures is highlighted, when I go to select a keyword the calendar goes away and then I am back to my library. How do I search for pictures by both date and keyword?
Thank You, Margaret

Margaret:
You can use a Smart Album to do the job. Just use the criteria:
Keyword is "xxxx" and Date is "dd/mm/yyyy"
Be sure to select All in the Match menu.
Or you can use the text find box at the bottom in this undocumented way:
1 - click on the library icon and in the text box type any character.
2 - select the library icon again and type Command-I
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IPTC Date Created only imports for October

I'm creating JPEGS with only IPTC and EXIF data in and the field 2:55 Date Created only seems to appear in the File Info / Origin / Date Created in CS4 if the date is set to october??
Manually editing the jpeg file, for example 20081007 works but 20080907 fails, even if I change the remaining EXIF and IPTC date fields to match
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Derek

No, that changes the Date on the EXIF panel, in my case the date the scans were made. I want that date to stand and the IPTC Date Created date changed.
Probably doesn't matter anyway, since I have just discovered that changes I make in Aperture IPTC metadata cannot be written to the master copy. At least not for TIFF files. Strangely, it does seem to work for jpgs.
Too bad. I liked some Aperture features.

Custom Sort BY IPTC data

I have a large number of scans that I am trying to assemble into a book. Is there any way to sort by IPTC date? (I hand inserted the date of actual image creation into the IPTC, but Aperture insists on sorting by scan date). Thanks for your help.
Seth

Yes, this is possible. Go to View>View Options... and for Column View pick a metadata set which includes the IPTC date.
Then, when you are in Column View in the browser pane you can click on the top of that column to order the images by it. Swapping back to Grid View will keep the order.
You can sort by any metadata you want in this manner.
Ian

Sort by IPTC data

Why is this not an option? I'd like to sort by caption or even better subject ID

Yes, this is possible. Go to View>View Options... and for Column View pick a metadata set which includes the IPTC date.
Then, when you are in Column View in the browser pane you can click on the top of that column to order the images by it. Swapping back to Grid View will keep the order.
You can sort by any metadata you want in this manner.
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Copy the 'version name' into 'headline' in the IPTC data

i need to copy the 'version name' into 'headline' in the IPTC data before uploading to a web site
Any thoughts on how to 'batch do' this would be gratefully received as I am cutting and pasting on each image at the moment.
many thanks

This should give you a start, via Applescript.
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Option for IPTC "Date Created" field to be auto-populated?

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The date of capture is held within the "Date Time Original" field in the EXIF data; but the IPTC "Date Created" field is blank.
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thanks,

Hmm, both LR 3.6 and LR 4.0 normally set IPTC:DateCreated to be the same as EXIF:DateTimeOriginal, both on export and when you do Metadata > Save To File.
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Oracle UCM - Extract IPTC data from images

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Importing IPTC data into LR database

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