Currently DSpace returns (through OAI) multi language fields as multiple fields with the same tag
Practical example; I have an article with two descriptions, one in english and one in portuguese. When I get this article's xml through OAI, i get the descriptions in the following format: ... <description> Here be description</description> <description> Here be portuguese description</description> ... I believe this is problematic because it makes very difficult to detect the language of the field and harvest both (for example, VuFind only gets the first description. see [1]). Also, please correct me if i'm wrong, but is a fault in DSpace on complying with Dublin Core guidelines, see Recommendation 9: *Where the language of the value is indicated, it should be encoded using the 'xml:lang' attribute.*From http://dublincore.org/documents/dc-xml-guidelines/. I know that, by default, it's not obligatory to have a language field, but shouldn't be the case when you have fields with more than one language? Can somebody confirm that? I was afraid that the problem was on VuFind side, i was looking at the article's xml returned from OAI stored in VuFind folders, but i believe thesse XMLs are exact ones returned by DSpace, and directly searching through DSpace OAI interface (dspacedomain/oai/request) gave me conffidence that its DSpace whos returning these XMLs. [1]https://sourceforge.net/p/vufind/mailman/message/34785485/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Technical Support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/dspace-tech. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
