IPTC, EXIF and XMP data

[schaep]

To really being able to use photo station through the web and the iPad app, we really need to be able to add tags which are save in the file itself, and of course search on them and/or show slideshows based on it.

How much easier would showing your photo's be if we had that already included in photostation?

I"m sure the developers are listening. Unfortunately just upgraded to 4.0 (looks great), but still no metadata features...

thanks for keep those innovations coming...

Marco

[Ikar]

Inclusion of full viable use of IPTC/EXIF metadata is currently a prime deciding factor in whether my next server will or won't be a Synology device. XMP would be a very desirable plus, but I believe IPTC/EXIF is essential -- lacking it is a substantial compatibility failure, IMO.

Personally I use my current Synology device for local storage as well as making a large number of photos and videos available to family scattered around the world, both old family history material and new/modern stuff. I already use other software for the majority of photo management including tagging, captioning, etc., but PhotoStation allows me to store and share without duplication in a separate management file/folder structure -- but the quality of sharing is severely limited by the lack of proper metadata support. I can't (won't) go through thousands of existing files to duplicate the existing captions to a PhotoStation 'comment', nor am I interested in being locked into PhotoStation by -only- using 'comments' going forward. That would, I believe, be quite senseless.

Otherwise I'm pretty darn pleased with both the simplicity and the features of the device as a whole, and plan to get a more powerful device in the fairly near future. But I'm willing to trade commercial convenience for a DIY device to get such a basic feature set currently available even in free software.

[iPaulus]

i would love being able to tag and rate photo's from my ipad with DS Photo+.
Thanks to the update today, i can delete photo's, now the rest

[cwkemp11]

I certainly would be interested in knowing if Diskstation Photo Station support for IPTC, XMP and EXIF data is in the plans to be supported.

For more explicit requests, my priority would be:

1. Read XMP, IPTC, EXIF, captions and keywords, then photo data, then other fields
2. Write XMP captions and keywords

I have a large set of photos for which it would be fabulous to just place them on my Diskstation and have the albums already captioned.

I guess an alternative would be to request that you publish the current caption API for Photo Station so I could write a script to upload my XMP captions to the Photo Station album caption format.

[pmienes]

I think this thread fits my request: I'm using Aperture to add comments (captions) to my photo's. Quite a few of my 15K photo's have captions in their EXIF metadata (or would it be IPTC?). So I would like the caption to presented in Photo Station.
I'm running DSM_DS212+_2228 and PhotoStation-88f628x-5.1-2207.

[kilian2050]

+1

[mrborg]

i would love being able to tag and rate photo's from my ipad with DS Photo+.

Yes Yes Yes - THIS would be so nice. Sitting in the sofa with my iPad using DS Photo Station and just going through all albums and setting general tags for whole albums (IPTC/XMP lables) or just choosing tags for individual pictures. Having a "tag-panel" to chose tags from should be possible

[ascent]

Good idea, you have my vote too!