Hello,

just to second that community/collection localization in standard DSpace would be most useful feature for non-English users so it's good to hear that https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues/1464 is considered for 7.x roadmap.

At University of Jyväskylä localization for community/collection names and descriptions was implemented with our earlier installation (1.7, XMLUI) as early as in 2011. The approach was based by overriding XSL transforms that showed community/collection names (e.g. templates like collectionDetailList-DIM, communitySummaryList-DIM, collectionDetailView-DIM, dri:trail), translations were read from external XML file (since localizations were not yet as pert of community/collection metadata).

Regardless of the framework used (unfortunately I'm not yet familiar with Angular UI), with the current data model the language information in community and collection metadata should be used directly instead of parsing delimiters, provided that sufficient editing form for different languages can be used, or imported from external source, e.g. using REST.


Best regards,
Miika Nurminen

On 4.10.2022 18:28, Urban Andersson wrote:
Hello Massoud,

That is how we used to fix it in earlier versions (jsp). But I have not figured out how to do it in Angular. I was thinking of a simple javascript, but I have not got around to that yet.

Would it be possible to have a look at how you do this in DSpace 7, i.e. where in the code this would go?
It would be a (more than) good enough quick fix for now.

Many thanks!

/ Urban

4 okt. 2022 kl. 16:57 skrev مسعود محمد الشريف <[email protected]>:


Hello Urban,

A simple and quick solution to the bilingually issue of collections/ communities in DSpace is to use a delimiter, like the bar | , in between two text describing these entities and their metadata fields as needed. All is required is to split the text  at viewing time so that only the text in the currently active is displayed.

Here you will see the Arabic version of the communities/collections list:
https://repo-nu.maktabat-online.com/community-list <https://repo-nu.maktabat-online.com/community-list>

Now switch the language to the English interface, using the world icon on top, and you will see them all appear in English.

The same approach has been applied to the facets elements, where now see controlled values like names of formats/ types, universities/ colleges/ departments, entities, etc. in multiple languages.

Thanks,
Massoud
KnowledgeWare




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On 4 Oct 2022, at 2:20 PM, Urban Andersson <[email protected]> wrote:

I believe this is the way to go! It would also be a sustainable solution, since you could also add more/new languages when needed, and there would be no changes to the backend/data model. And I presume the default lang specified would be used when there (for some reason) is no match.

/ Urban

måndag 3 oktober 2022 kl. 17:14:21 UTC+2 skrev [email protected]:

    On Mon, Oct 03, 2022 at 07:21:31AM -0700,
    [email protected] wrote:
    > Bonjour,
    >
    > I agree that this is a limitation in DSpace. As collection and
    community
    > are items in DSPace (and thus have there own metadata), maybe a
    way to
    > solve this problem would be to allow language selections at the
    metadata
    > level, like it could be done already for objects metadata (i.e
    abstracts).
    > For collections, it would look like this:
    > [image: dspace-multilingual-collection-metadata.png]
    > What do you think of this avenue to solve the problem?
    >
    > There is already an issue for this on Github dspace-angular
    > repository:
    https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues/1464
    <https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues/1464>. We could
    > build on it.
    >
    > Thanks!
    >
    > Pierre Lasou
    > Université Laval
    >
    >
    > On Friday, September 30, 2022 at 5:22:08 AM UTC-4
    [email protected] wrote:
    >
    > > Not being able to use language controlled community and
    collection names
    > > has always (I think) been a major limitation in DSpace. In
    earlier (JSP)
    > > versions we solved this by using a workaround, similar to this:
    > > https://groups.google.com/g/dspace-community/c/6dwt-gjVPTo
    <https://groups.google.com/g/dspace-community/c/6dwt-gjVPTo>
    > > but this seems not quite as easy to accomplish in Angular.
    > >
    > > Has anyone else had a look at this, and are there any
    suggestions on how
    > > to approach it?
    > > Either by manipulating the app source or the data that is
    returned by the
    > > backend? I'd rather not write a new extension, but maybe this
    is the only
    > > way?
    > >
    > > Also, it would be nice if introductory texts (HTML) etc. of
    > > communities/collections could be presented in multiple
    languages. This
    > > could quite easily be accomplished by using CSS and named
    divs. But
    > > unfortunately html attributes, such as id and style, seem to
    be removed in
    > > the html output - i.e. <div id="swedish">text</div> is
    transformed to
    > > <div>text</div> in the UI. Or maybe I am doing something
    wrong here?
    > >
    > > Any thoughts or suggestions would be very welcome! If someone
    is already
    > > working on this I'd be happy to help out if I can.
    > >
    > > Urban Andersson
    > > Chalmers University of Technology

    Do you mean that the community and collection names should be
    presented to the user in the best available match to user's
    requested
    locale? That should not be difficult to implement, since these names
    are the values of the corresponding 'dc.title' metadata rows for
    those
    objects, and metadata fields can have multiple values with different
    locales.

    Many other features of Collection are stored in metadata:

    o Introductory text: dc.description
    o Short Description: dc.description.abstract
    o Copyright text: dc.rights
    o License: dc.rights.license

    I haven't found where News is stored.

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