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

Tue Jun 9 08:29:01 UTC 2015

It sounds great!
We just started here (Trentino-Italian speaking region) to chat about how to support multilingual with South Tyrol/Alto Adige region (german/italian speaking region) that is planning to setup up a regional CKAN And we would like to add this feature to our regional CKAN portal too
Could be wonderful if we spend all effort in one direction.
Thanks!

Marco Combetto
marcomb at hotmail.com
Mobile: +39 3316329971
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From: stefan.oderbolz at liip.ch
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 22:48:44 +0200
To: ckan-dev at lists.okfn.org
Subject: Re: [ckan-dev] Multilingual extension for Metadata, organization, Groups, tags

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/marcomb 

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