[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Dual Language Data

[Andrew Morrison]

I would imagine it would require a major overhaul or fork of ArchivesSpace to make it capable of capturing two or more translations of everything in a single record. The data model<https://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace/tree/master/common/schemas> is close to the EAD 2002 schema, which isn't multilingual in this sense (unlike, say, the manuscript description module of the TEI schema<https://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/MS.html>.)

Andrew.


On Fri, 2019-11-15 at 12:30 +0000, RENTON Scott wrote:
Hi folks

Wondering if anyone can help with a challenge I've been set. I've got a task to investigate how easily we could populate a togglable English-Scottish Gaelic front end supplied by Archives Space data (through either the SOLR index or the API- we've built a few single-language sites which interrogate ArchivesSpace SOLR).

I know that language can be captured when cataloguing, but would I be right in saying there is no way of capturing the same data in multiple languages (i.e. can I catalogue a title for a resource twice, once in English, and once in Gaelic, and would the link, that they are 'the same thing' be preserved?)?

The current website is a bespoke postgres db, which can do this. We want to migrate the users over to ArchivesSpace, and I'm pretty sure it can handle everything, but this would be a sticking point if it's not possible.

Cheers
Scott



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