[ckan-dev] CKAN multilingual examples?

Tue Jun 23 12:52:29 UTC 2015

thank you all for the quick responses!

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On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 2:51 PM, Denis Zgonjanin <deniszgonjanin at gmail.com>
wrote:

> As others have pointed out, for the static strings on the site you can use
> the built-in CKAN translations. The .ini lets you specify which languages
> should be supported.
>
> If you also need multi-lingual metadata, we use
> https://github.com/open-data/ckanext-fluent and
> https://github.com/open-data/ckanext-scheming. Those two together give
> you multi-lingual metadata forms. Together with the static extension you
> can have a completely multilingual site.
>
> - Denis
>
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 7:04 AM, Dickson Venance <dicksonmyspace at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> It will require you to create another ckan extension to handle that,
>> because in this case you will have to save the some contents in the
>> database so you have add columns in database tables, to add some form
>> fields, even to create some extras to capture these inputs.
>>
>> About the code its available but we haven't published it yet, but soon
>> will be available.
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 1:48 PM, Ton Zijlstra <ton.zijlstra at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Sander, Dickson,
>>>
>>> Thank you for those examples. Is the ability for multiple languages
>>> available out of the box, or did you create additional functionality to
>>> support it? In that case: is the code for that added functionality
>>> available somewhere within the CKAN project?
>>>
>>> best,
>>> Ton
>>>
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>>> On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 12:27 PM, Dickson Venance <
>>> dicksonmyspace at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Sander, yes you can look at this portal* opendata.go.tz
>>>> <http://opendata.go.tz>*  , i participated in developing it and it is
>>>> multilingual *English and Swahili.*
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 1:23 PM, Sander van der Waal <
>>>> sander.vanderwaal at okfn.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 23 June 2015 at 11:22, Ton Zijlstra <ton.zijlstra at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Ton,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> I have a question. Do you know of any CKAN data portals that are
>>>>>> multi-lingual? Currently a CKAN portal is being constructed for Kyrgyzstan,
>>>>>> which will need to be in Russian, Kyrgyz and possibly English. While I am
>>>>>> aware of localization into a singular language other than English, I am
>>>>>> looking for examples that deploy multiple interface languages within the
>>>>>> same CKAN instance.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> http://publicdata.eu/ has a dropdown at the bottom of the page that
>>>>> allows you to change the interface into one of many languages. This will
>>>>> translate just the standard labels, as we've not pro-actively translated
>>>>> most of the customisations into non-English languages.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is that what you're after?
>>>>>
>>>>> Sander
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> best,
>>>>>> Ton
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