“Keywords” to “Description”

Thank you for your question and for your patience while I was traveling and away from my Internet access.

I just re-tested the IPTC to Description mapping you described and it is working on my system. It is possible that your keywords are stored in an EXIF field and not actually mapped to the IPTC 2#025 value.

If you can post a link to one or more of your images I would be happy to analyze it and let you now what metadata it contains (and how to map that in MLA).

You can also have a closer look on your own:

1. Navigate to the Media/Assistant admin submenu.
2. Check the box to the left of one or more images.
3. Select “edit” from the Bulk Actions dropdown control, then click “Apply”.
4. In the Description text box, enter template:[+iptc:ALL_IPTC,export+]
5. Click “Update” in the lower-right corner of the Bulk Edit area.
6. Click “Refresh” when the bulk edit process is complete.

That should give you a dump of the IPTC values your image contains in the Description field. You can also try template:[+exif:ALL_EXIF,export+] or template:[+xmp:ALL_XMP,export+] to get those values. It’s not pretty, but it’s an easy way to see what’s there.

Once you know how the data is stored it should be straightforward to map it to your Description or other fields. You can experiment on one or two images to make any cleanup easier.

Let me know if the above suggestions are helpful and if you can post a link to an image I can look at. Thanks for your interest in the plugin.

Thanks for your kind words and your update with the good news.

You asked “Would you have a tool to recommend?” I have had good results with Adobe Photoshop. I also rely on the same tool WordPress uses to extract metadata from audio and video files:

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/// getID3() by James Heinrich <info@getid3.org> //
// available at http://getid3.sourceforge.net //
// or http://www.getid3.org //
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

The getID3 tool is a library of PHP code, and the distribution package includes a great demo program that lets you browse a directory, click on a file and get a very complete display of the metadata it contains. However, you have to install it on a web server like Apache or IIS that’s running on your system. It’s a good tool for developers but rather geeky for the wider audience.

I am marking this topic resolved, but please update it if you have problems or further questions regarding metadata access in MLA.