[ckan-dev] Multilingual extension for Metadata, organization, Groups, tags

Fri Jun 5 20:48:44 UTC 2015

Hi Marco,

for the Swiss portal we used the multilingual extension and because we only
added data using harvesters, we could add metadata in all languages,
without having to worry about a multilingual frontend (with forms etc.). To
transfer translations from one CKAN instance to another, we build a special
"translation harvester", that basically exposes the term_translation table
via API and thus allows to harvest this data (see
https://github.com/ogdch/ckanext-transharvest).

BUT: we are now in the middle of re-building the swiss portal, and we will
use ckanext-fluent this time. We think it is the way to go, especially
because it extends the API. We are still at the beginning of this new
development, but I'll keep you posted about our progress and how we
actually do it. It's very well possible, that we figure out that
ckanext-fluent does not (yet) work the way we want. But the idea would be
to improve it, instead of inventing something completely different/new.

Hope this helps!

- Stefan

On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Ian Ward <ian at excess.org> wrote:

> Not sure what you mean by fluent not being available by the API. That's
> the whole point of ckanext-fluent, strings are replaced with objects
> containing all languages.
>
> fluent isn't yet the easiest to use, you do need to modify your solr
> schema and before_index calls to index the multilingual fields properly.
>
> The other multilingual project I'm aware of is the European Commission one
> under development but I don't think they have released any code yet.
>
> On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 8:43 AM, Marco Combetto <marcomb at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear all
>>
>> We need to migrate our CKAN 2.2 to a multilingual scenario (Italian,
>> German, English)
>>
>> I have seen a couple of CKAN (Swiss and Canada) supporting multiple
>> language non only with string traslation, but also enabling somehow to
>> insert metadata in multiple language.
>>
>> The most documented one is the Canadian hereafter, .
>> https://github.com/open-data/ckanext-fluent
>>
>> It has some limitation (multilingual is not available by API) but is a
>> very nice work.
>>
>> Is there something more out there? Anybody maybe from Open Data Swiss? I
>> see that they are doing something similar.
>> Anything about this is available in 2.4 or future releases?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>> Marco Combetto
>> marcomb at hotmail.com
>> Mobile: +39 3316329971
>> www.*linkedin*.com/in/*marco*mb
>>
>>
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