[Dspace-general] Arabic Language Metadata

[Andrew Hankinson]

That is fantastic!  I was not aware of that, but that's perfect.

Cheers,
Andrew


-----Original Message-----
From: Shawna Sadler [mailto:ssadler at ucalgary.ca]
Sent: Thu 6/14/2007 12:53 PM
To: dspace-general at mit.edu; Andrew Hankinson
Subject: Arabic Language Metadata
 
Hi Andrew,
I'm not sure if this helps, but I set language through the collection's 
"Item Template" If I know that all titles and authors will be in another 
language I go into the front-end Admin and type in the iso standard for 
that language in the collection's Item Template and just leave it. So 
far I haven't had any problems.

That way it pre-populates for every record in the collection.
Shawna

Shawna Sadler
Coordinator, Digital Initiatives
Libraries and Cultural Resources
University of Calgary
Phone: (403) 220-3739
Email: ssadler at ucalgary.ca

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Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:49:14 -0400
From: "Andrew Hankinson" <andrew.hankinson at mail.mcgill.ca>
Subject: [Dspace-general] Arabic Language Metadata
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Hi folks,

I'm trying to customize Dspace to do Arabic language metadata.  We have a number of recordings of Arabic folk music that our researchers want to catalogue in English and Arabic.

>From what I can tell, the only problem (so far) would be that Dspace assumes all metadata submissions are in English. ('en') I have an idea that I would simply add a new entry to 'input-forms.xml' so that it would double each field i.e. English Author / Arabic Author, English Title / Arabic Title, etc.  However, I cannot seem to find the place where I can tell it that that particular field will be catalogued in Arabic.

Any thoughts?  Thanks in advance.

Andrew