Naive question, which tags to use?

[calberga]

I have a large (and growing) collection of .jpg images, from digital cameras and scans of photographs, slides and negatives. I would like to tag these with various kinds of information, but am very uncertain of which tags to use for what.

The sort of things I wish to include are (when known):

The source, including media and location where the original is stored
The location
The identities of people in the image
The date of the image
and probably others that I'll think of later!

I've scanned through lists of ITPC and XMC tags, but doen't really see how they fit what I want to do. I also haven't seen a description of how ITPC keywords are used, e.g., how do I make "New York City" and "John Smith" to keywords and not five?

Any example of how you do this sort of thing would be welcome.

[derniwi]

Hi,

have a look at the help file:
Important/interesting IPTC tags/placeholders, according to IPTC specification:

Placeholder Tag name/function
$I5 - Object Name
$I7 - Edit Status
$I10 - Priority
$I15 - Category
$I20 - Supplemental Category
$I25 - Keywords
$I30 - Release Date
$I35 - Release Time
$I40 - Special Instructions
$I45 - Reference Service
$I47 - Reference Date
$I50 - Reference Number
$I55 - Created Date
$I60 - Created Time
$I65 - Originating Program
$I70 - Program Version
$I75 - Object Cycle
$I80 - Byline (Author)
$I85 - Byline Title
$I90 - City
$I92 - Sublocation
$I95 - Province State
$I100 - Country Code
$I101 - Country
$I103 - Original Transmission Reference
$I105 - Headline
$I110 - Credit
$I115 - Source
$I116 - Copyright
$I120 - Caption
$I121 - Local Caption
$I122 - Caption Writer

The keywords are very simple, so you could use a new line for each new keyword. But if you have a "New York City" and a "New York State" the search fpr just "New York" will find both.

Since I always think about using tag / keywords, but never have the motivation to set them, I can't give you a good example... :-(

Regards, Nils.