keywording in Lightroom

[ScottBuckel]

I just moved to Lightroom for my sole cataloging application recently and like it better than Expression Media in most areas other than keywording.  There are a couple of threads from the past wher we discussed making a keyword list to use in EM such that I was able to insert very quickly and efficiently taxonomic information very quickly. 

I created a series of lists for EM that had scientific data from many groups of plants and animals (I had many special vocabularies I used depending on the types of keywords I was adding).  This worked well for me in that I would start typing Mallard for example and an entire list with the following info would pop up Mallard, Anas platyrhynchos, ANSERIFORMES, ANATIDAE, Anatinae, Anas I would hit enter and the keywords would be in place.

I have just started keywording once again and I was using lightroom and checking off the keywords in the list is just annoying and slow.  Is there a way to add keywords in a manner as easy as I did in EM?  I also submit to a stock agency and the keywords need to go into the keyword field which by my reading may preclude the use of hierarchical keywords, but I am not sure.

Last night I used EM to keyword and then sync the files and then I exported from Lightroom for a small submission.  Seems rather inefficient to have to import the same images into different catalogs.. 

Also I found on the web lists of this information but it only had the scientific name the common name and the common version of the family name and I want to add more info than that as I just sold a couple of images that the buyer had searched for a subfamily name that I had added to keywords.

Thanks,

Scott

[ScottBuckel]

Nevermind - I think I found out how to do it.  I had forgotten about the Keywords and Containing Keywords tab of the Keyword Tag.  Now I just need to convert my previous keyword lists over for use in Lightroom.  Fortunately I have the original files and the intermediate steps I sent through to generate them.

I remember in previous versions of Lightroom if you used long keywords lists, like David Reicks' Controlled Vocabulary, the catalog would slow down.  I currently using it for keywording and the catalog seems find, is there a point at which the program slows down now?

Scott