Import a Tag Tree

Import a Tag Tree

If you have a pre-existing tagging or keywording taxonomy, you can easily import it to your Mediagraph account in the form of a .txt file. Mediagraph imports this file according to the syntax used by Adobe Lightroom's "Export Keywords" feature. Lightroom exports keywords as a basic tab-delimited list. Users migrating a taxonomy from Lightroom can import this list to their Mediagraph account directly. A list of keywords from another source can be easily built or edited according to this syntax in your computer's text editor.

Lightroom will export all keywords saved to your catalog as a .txt file. In the screenshots below, you can compare the keyword hierarchy in both formats: as seen in Lightroom and as seen in the text editor. The .txt file is formatted as a tab-delimited list, which is a common way for applications and databases to share or store data.

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In the .txt list, there is one keyword per line. The hierarchical structure is expressed through the number of tabs before the start of the keyword in each line. As you can see in the first few lines of the list above, Miles O'Malley is tabbed in once further than Friends, because his keyword is contained within Friends in Lightroom. All of the people keywords are contained within the parent keyword People, which is what Lightroom calls a non-exporting keyword. This is the only way to functionally organize keywords in Lightroom. All non-exporting keywords are automatically converted to Organizers after they are imported to your Mediagraph account.

Pro Tip: If Mediagraph recognizes that a newly imported tag is an exact match to a Person tag in any existing Tag Tree on your account, it will automatically classify the match as a Person tag.

Export Keywords from Lightroom

  1. In the Lightroom catalog containing your taxonomy, click to open the Metadata menu.
  2. Hover over Export Keywords...
  3. Click Exclude Keyword Tag Options... (.txt)
  4. Choose a name and location for your file, then click Save.
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Import a Tag Tree to Mediagraph

Mediagraph lets you import a keyword list to an existing tag tree. Enterprise accounts can also create multiple tag trees, so that an imported list can be kept separate from a tag tree constructed in Mediagraph.

  1. In the left-hand sidebar of your Mediagraph account, open the Tag Tree accordion.
  2. Hover over the info icon next to the name of the Tag Tree you want to import into.
  3. Click Import.
  4. Click Select .txt File.
  5. Find the correct file in your computer's file browser and click Open.

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