[Dspace-general] Language attribute on metadata values

[Stuart Lewis]

Hi Joan,

 

As far as I know this isn't currently a feature in DSpace. There is a
setting in dspace.cfg "default.language = en_US" which can be changed,
however, if it is left empty, it defaults to 'en'.

 

If you wanted to change it by default to be left empty, you probably
need to look in
[dspace-src]/dspace-api/src/main/java/org/dspace/submit/step/DescribeSte
p.java and look for the following block of code:

 

    public static String getDefaultLanguageQualifier()

    {

       String language = "";

       language = ConfigurationManager.getProperty("default.language");

       if (language == null || language == "")

       {

                   language = "en";

       }

       return language;

    }

 

Thanks,

 

 

Stuart Lewis

Digital Services Programmer

Te Tumu Herenga The University of Auckland Library

Auckland Mail Centre, Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142, New Zealand

Ph: 64 9 373-7599 x81928

http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz <http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/> /

 

 

 

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[mailto:dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Joan_Spanne at sil.org
Sent: Friday, 5 June 2009 2:23 p.m.
To: dspace-general at mit.edu
Subject: [Dspace-general] Language attribute on metadata values

 


Hello, 

We are in an early testing phase with DSpace 1.5.2, using the XMLUI. We
work with resources in many languages, and include metadata in a variety
of languages, even for a single item. 

Is it possible to: 
1. allow the submitter to specify the language of the content of a
metadata field in the submission UI for a given element.qualifier? 
Or 
2. at least prevent DSpace from assigning a language attribute of
"en_US" to most metadata element instances? 

I know it is possible to edit the metadata afterward, but we would
prefer no language attribute on the metadata to having to manually
update this for every record. 

Thanks, 

Joan Spanne
SIL International 
Office of Language Information Systems
7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd.
Dallas, TX 75236
www.sil.org

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