Hi,
CollectiveAccess also supports various scripts via Unicode, and supports
cataloguing in any number of languages simultaneously. It will display content
in the most appropriate language to end-users and will fall-back to alternative
languages if the desired field content is not available in the user's primary
language. It can also translate date and time formats automatically (Eg. a date
entered in English will automatically appear in German if the end-user's
language is German). An example of a publicly accessible site using the
multilingual cataloguing and presentation tools is
http://www.wir-waren-so-frei.de. Most content on that site is available in
German and English, with a smattering of Chinese and Russian.
Both the CollectiveAccess back-end cataloguing tool ("Providence") and
front-end presentation software ("Pawtucket") support multi-lingual
cataloguing. Both are open-source and freely available under the the GNU Public
License.
(For the record, I'm one of the developers of CollectiveAccess)
Good luck with your project!
seth
On Feb 3, 2011, at 5:42 PM, lenore wrote:
> MIMSY XG from Selago Design not only supports both Latin, Asian, Russian,
> Hebrew, Arabic, etc. but is able to support these and an unlimited number of
> different languages simultaneously throughout its entire data structure. I
> believe it is the only system that does this. Other "multi-lingual" systems
> either support only a single language at a time or a limited number of
> fields in another language. MIMSY XG also provides a set of translation
> tools that make translating basic terms from one language to another
> simple. Selago's web software (Mobius) also supports multiple languages.
>
> www.selagodesign.com
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