[ckan-dev] Multilingual Datasets in CKAN

Mon Feb 25 19:30:17 UTC 2013

On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Stefan Oderbolz
<stefan.oderbolz at liip.ch> wrote:
> I try to find out if there are already solutions for multilingual
> datasets in CKAN out there. What I found is this wiki article about
> the situation in Canada:
> https://github.com/okfn/ckan/wiki/Multilingual-Datasets,-the-Government-of-Canada-approach
>
> Actually I thought there must be a "cleaner" solution. For most cases
> it should work to add additional metadata fields for the different
> languages. Maybe the CKAN data model must be extended to provide
> better support for multilingual datasets. Are there any plans to do
> something in that direction?

Hi Stefan,

I wrote that wiki page, and here was my earlier suggestion for a
better way to handle multiple languagesin CKAN, perhaps some time in
the future:

http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/ckan-dev/2013-January/003740.html

Ian