What is the language of the descriptions of the records which don’t have a language field? – Always the same, default language or different languages?
Beat
From: glamtools-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:glamtools-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Liam Wyatt
Sent: Mittwoch, 27. Mai 2015 15:50
To: Conversations revolving around the development of GLAM Digital Tools
Subject: Re: [Glamtools] Language template for the descriptions
All of the records have 1 description field. But only some of the records have a language field (and it is not always the same language).
On Wednesday, 27 May 2015, Jane Darnell <jane023@gmail.com> wrote:
1. are you sure blank is truly blank? i.e. there could be some default language you are not seeing
2. is there always a lang field attached when there is more than one description?
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 2:59 PM, Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all, I could use some advice on a problem I'm having with prepping an upload...
My batch of images contain descriptions written in a half-dozen languages, so I need to have different language tags for them. However, only SOME of the files have that metadata included (other times it's just blank so I can't help that).
My metadata has these two elements, for example:
<description> lorem ipsum </description>
<language> en </language>
And, if I understand the documentation correctly, I need for it to be formatted in this way if I want to get the GWT to automatically wrap the language template:
<description lang='en'> lorem ipsum </description>
Question 1: Is that correct that I need to merge these two metadata fields in that way? Or, am I able to leave them as they currently are (that would be ideal!)
Question 2: If I DO have to merge them, how can I merge these two fields when only SOME of the records have a <language> tag at all? (recalling that I can't add the same tag to all the records because they're in multiple different languages).
I hope this makes sense...
Sincerely,
-Liam
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