Support for Dataverse in multiple languages coming soon! (Internationalization)

[Amber Leahey]

Hi everyone, 

The Dataverse team and community are working hard to make Dataverse available in different languages. Check out the new Language Toggle feature github issue #4685 and Internationalization Project related issues. 

This development is part of an ongoing project to internationalize the Dataverse system which will allow the growing international community to configure Dataverse to work in other languages. This will also support the setup of a new system and workflow for maintaining translations and language files in a centralized space outside of the core bundle.properties moving forward. 

Over the years, we've heard from a number of organizations that make Dataverse available in multiple languages, here are the current languages supported (versions vary): 

• French
• English
• Spanish
• German
  
• Slovenian
• Swedish
• Ukrainian 
• Chinese
• Others?

Some additional code changes will be made over the coming months to ensure this is released to the larger DV community. If you are interested in contributing translations, additional language files, testing feedback, etc., for sharing with others on this topic please reply to this thread. 

A community effort is required to centralize and maintain these language files and translations moving forward. Our objective is to make Dataverse work in different languages, increase local adoption, and allow development to run smoothly without interference by version changes and translation additions. 

We'd love to hear from you if you think this will be useful for your Dataverse! 

Special thanks to the Harvard IQSS Dev team, Jayanthy Chengan (Scholars Portal/OCUL), Université de Montréal, DANS & DataverseEU, and others who have contributed to making Dataverse work in multiple languages. 

Best, 

Amber Leahey

[mh.vezi...@gmail.com]

Hi Amber,

We (Université de Montréal) will surely be interested in continuing to work on the French version (within a multilingual application approach) of Dataverse since we have already invested a lot of work for this purpose as you are already aware of. However, we are interested in working with other institutions that would like to contribute to the French version and / or wish to contribute to solve problems related to multilingualism.

Marie-Hélène Vézina

Librarian, Université de Montréal

[Geneviève Michaud]

Hi Amber, Marie-Hélène,

Here at Sciences Po Paris, we are definitely willing to contribute to French version and deal with multilingualism management.

Geneviève

[Juan Corrales]

Hi Amber, 

  We are working to translate to Spanish the Dataverse develop branch. We can contribute in testing and feedback.

  Thanks many to all and especially to Jayanthy Chengan for the great work that he is doing. 

  

  Best,

Juan Corrales (Consorcio Madroño)

[Vyacheslav Tikhonov]

Hi Amber,

We have two more languages coming to DataverseEU in the end of September (Italian and Hungarian) and metadata schema should be also translated. 

Also we're working on the implementation of plugin to get localization of controlled vocabularies for keyword fields, should be available in the end of October.

Regards,

Slava (DANS)

[Philipp at UiT]

We'd like to contribute with/to a Norwegian version.

Best,

Philipp (UiT The Arctic University of Norway)

[danny...@g.harvard.edu]

Thanks to everyone for the community efforts around internationalization! As was suggested on the call, we have brought back the internationalization Dataverse group for further coordination:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/dataverse-internationalization-wg

- Danny

[Pedro Principe]

Hi

University of Minho from Portugal is interested and available to work on the Portuguese translation.

Best

Pedro Principe

[Vyacheslav Tikhonov]

Hi Pedro,

Great news, we're very keen to have portuguese as supported language for CESSDA DataverseEU project (web interface, metadata schema and controlled vocabularies).

Best,

Slava

[mh.vezi...@gmail.com]

Bonjour Geneviève,

I just saw this French version: https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse-docker/blob/master/dataversedock/lang.properties/Bundle_fr_original.properties

Our latest translation is here: https://github.com/BibNumUMontreal/dataverse/tree/4856_FrenchPropertyFiles/src/main/java   

Feel free to comment and/or contribute.

Marie-Hélène Vézina, Université de Montréal

[Vyacheslav Tikhonov]

Just small comment: French version from https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse-docker/blob/master/dataversedock/lang.properties/Bundle_fr_original.properties by translated by organization of Geneviève.

Best,

Slava (DANS)

[Amber Leahey]

Thanks, Danny!

So everyone head over / subscribe to this new group. I'll provide more updates about the project in that forum moving forward. 

Thanks again for all the interest and support on this, hope to touch base soon! 

Best, 

Amber

[Vyacheslav Tikhonov]

Great news, we have added Italian in the list of supported languages in DataverseEU project:

https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse-docker

Best,

Slava

On Monday, September 10, 2018 at 5:53:32 PM UTC+2, Amber Leahey wrote:

[Vyacheslav Tikhonov]

Hi everyone,

We have extended DataverseEU with support of Hungarian language, please feel free to test:

https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse-docker

Best,

Slava

On Monday, September 10, 2018 at 5:53:32 PM UTC+2, Amber Leahey wrote: