On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 09:05:56AM -0500, Tim Donohue wrote:
> In DSpace, all metadata values have a "Language" column associated with 
> them. Often times, this "Language" value is either defaults to not being 
> set, or to your specified default (e.g. "en_US" , US English). However, 
> in some scenarios (usually either a bulk data load or migration), the 
> "Language" value might be accidentally set to an empty value (e.g. a 
> single space or empty string). That's what causes the seemingly 
> duplicate field names.

Is there any use case for a text_language value of an empty or blank
string?  Should we not convert such values to null values in the
business logic layer on ingestion, and remove this puzzle?

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Mark H. Wood
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