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I want to build a kind of photo archive in NC and use tags to quickly find pictures if I need them for an article or sth. Adding tags to the files in NC is a bit tideous as I have to open each individually and add the tags I want.
Instead, I would like to add tags in Lightroom. This is much faster as I can select all the pictures I took at a demo and just add the tag “demo” to all of them simultaniously.
However, I don’t know how to upload the files to NC and keep the tagging. Is there a way?
Tagging after exporting from LR with some other tool would also be okay. I just want to do it in bulk.
I just tried and don’t see how. So far I click an Image, open the sidebar, click the three-dot-menu in the sidebar and that’s where I can access the tags.
Lightroom writes keywords to XMP/IPTC metadata inside the image files (or into .xmp sidecar files for RAW). Nextcloud’s built-in tag system does not automatically read these — they are separate systems with no native bridge.
A few approaches for the keyword side:
The Nextcloud app Memories (memories.gallery) indexes EXIF/XMP metadata and makes photos searchable by location, date and some metadata fields
For a scripted approach, exiftool can extract XMP keywords and push them to Nextcloud tags via the WebDAV/API
For the rating and color label part of the Lightroom workflow — picking selects, flagging keepers — there is now a dedicated app called StarRate. It brings star ratings (1–5) and color labels into Nextcloud and writes them back as XMP metadata, so Lightroom can read them again. Not the same as keyword tags, but covers the curation side of the workflow.
