Currently DSpace returns (through OAI) multi language fields as multiple fields with the same tag
Practical example; I have an article with two descriptions, one in english and one in portuguese. When I get this article's xml through OAI, i get the descriptions in the following format: ... <description> Here be description</description> <description> Here be portuguese description</description> ... I believe this is problematic because it makes very difficult to detect the language of the field and harvest both (for example, VuFind only gets the first description. see [1]). Also, please correct me if i'm wrong, but is a fault in DSpace on complying with Dublin Core guidelines, see Recommendation 9: *Where the language of the value is indicated, it should be encoded using the 'xml:lang' attribute.*From http://dublincore.org/documents/dc-xml-guidelines/. I know that, by default, it's not obligatory to have a language field, but shouldn't be the case when you have fields with more than one language? Can somebody confirm that? I was afraid that the problem was on VuFind side, i was looking at the article's xml returned from OAI stored in VuFind folders, but i believe thesse XMLs are exact ones returned by DSpace, and directly searching through DSpace OAI interface (dspacedomain/oai/request) gave me conffidence that its DSpace whos returning these XMLs. [1]https://sourceforge.net/p/vufind/mailman/message/34785485/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/dspace-community. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
