When creating item metadata via our input forms, we find that dspace is 
appending a language code to some (but not all) of the fields. This causes us 
difficulty when exporting the metadata for re-use elsewhere, because the 
resulting csv file has duplicate columns. For example, we get dc.title and 
dc.title[en] columns, with some items with their title data in one column and 
other items with their title data in the other column.

There's no provision in the metadata registry to specify language codes for 
each field, but when we edit the metadata of an item via the UI we can see the 
language codes that have been assigned by dspace to the item.

Some of the affected fields are ones that we've added to the dc schema (e.g. 
dc.citation.volume) but others are standard fields that came with dspace (e.g. 
dc.title, dc.subject).

We've commented out the default_language and default_locale parameters in 
dspace.cfg, which got rid of the en_US codes (which was the setting for 
default_language) but not the en codes (which was the setting for 
default_locale). We can't find any other reference in the dspace manual about 
how to control these language codes, so any suggestions would be welcome.

Linda McDonald
University of Dundee Library & Learning Centre




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