Multi-Language marc bib/auth & Policy, Koha Architecture
Hello,
As of Koha 3.2.x, we are using Koha as a single language ILS in marc tags and policies, where marc bib tags, auth tags, policy descriptions are displayed in one language only at an instance. As shown below with our Arabic Koha 3.2.3 installed, you will notice that in spite that the interface is in English (Left-to-Right) orientation the marc fields tags and policy elements descriptions are still displayed in Arabic because there are only single fields structure to carry these elements.
marc Bibliographic tags:
http://alshafallah.maktabat-online.net/cgi-bin/koha/opac-MARCdetail.pl?bibli... marc Authority tags:
http://alshafallah.maktabat-online.net/cgi-bin/koha/opac-authoritiesdetail.p... < http://alshafallah.maktabat-online.net/cgi-bin/koha/opac-authoritiesdetail.p...
Library, Branches Groups: http://alshafallah.maktabat-online.net:8080/cgi-bin/koha/admin/branches.pl
I recall hat the issue of having Koha supporting more than one language, for its marc fields tags and policy descriptive names in one instance, has been raised before, but until today we are not sure if something had been done about it or the issue is still in the pipelines for future Koha releases.
Please, does anyone know more about this issue ? I recall that I have read
in one of the Koha digest posts that a German Koha was built with English and German infrastructure to allow using either language in all of its user interface including marc tags and policy descriptive names. Thanks for any guidance on this.
Thanks Massoud M. AlShareef,
KnowledgeWare Technologies
Hi, currently there is no way to load bibliographic frameworks or other things in additional languages into the database and make the display obey your chosen language on the bottom of the page. You can load sample data in different languages during install - this is available for German including translated frameworks. At the moment only one language at a time is supported for the database based data. Other exemples for that are authorized values, item types, borrower categories or notices. Katrin From: koha-devel-bounces@lists.koha-community.org [mailto:koha-devel-bounces@lists.koha-community.org] On Behalf Of massoud alshareef Sent: Monday, March 07, 2011 6:52 AM To: koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org; koha-translate@lists.koha-community.org Subject: [Koha-devel] Multi-Language marc bib/auth & Policy,Koha Architecture Hello, As of Koha 3.2.x, we are using Koha as a single language ILS in marc tags and policies, where marc bib tags, auth tags, policy descriptions are displayed in one language only at an instance. As shown below with our Arabic Koha 3.2.3 installed, you will notice that in spite that the interface is in English (Left-to-Right) orientation the marc fields tags and policy elements descriptions are still displayed in Arabic because there are only single fields structure to carry these elements. marc Bibliographic tags: http://alshafallah.maktabat-online.net/cgi-bin/koha/opac-MARCdetail.pl?b iblionumber=197 <http://alshafallah.maktabat-online.net/cgi-bin/koha/opac-MARCdetail.pl? biblionumber=197> marc Authority tags: http://alshafallah.maktabat-online.net/cgi-bin/koha/opac-authoritiesdeta il.pl?authid=6771 <http://alshafallah.maktabat-online.net/cgi-bin/koha/opac-authoritiesdet ail.pl?authid=6771> <http://alshafallah.maktabat-online.net/cgi-bin/koha/opac-authoritiesdet ail.pl?authid=3432 <http://alshafallah.maktabat-online.net/cgi-bin/koha/opac-authoritiesdet ail.pl?authid=3432> >Library, Branches Groups: http://alshafallah.maktabat-online.net:8080/cgi-bin/koha/admin/branches. pl <http://alshafallah.maktabat-online.net:8080/cgi-bin/koha/admin/branches .pl> I recall hat the issue of having Koha supporting more than one language, for its marc fields tags and policy descriptive names in one instance, has been raised before, but until today we are not sure if something had been done about it or the issue is still in the pipelines for future Koha releases. Please, does anyone know more about this issue ? I recall that I have read in one of the Koha digest posts that a German Koha was built with English and German infrastructure to allow using either language in all of its user interface including marc tags and policy descriptive names. Thanks for any guidance on this. Thanks Massoud M. AlShareef, KnowledgeWare Technologies
Thank Chris, Fischer for your swift response. Thanks Massoud M. AlShareef, KnowledgeWare Technologies On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Fischer, Katrin <Katrin.Fischer@bsz-bw.de>wrote:
Hi,
currently there is no way to load bibliographic frameworks or other things in additional languages into the database and make the display obey your chosen language on the bottom of the page. You can load sample data in different languages during install – this is available for German including translated frameworks.
At the moment only one language at a time is supported for the database based data.
Other exemples for that are authorized values, item types, borrower categories or notices.
Katrin
*From:* koha-devel-bounces@lists.koha-community.org [mailto: koha-devel-bounces@lists.koha-community.org] *On Behalf Of *massoud alshareef *Sent:* Monday, March 07, 2011 6:52 AM *To:* koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org; koha-translate@lists.koha-community.org *Subject:* [Koha-devel] Multi-Language marc bib/auth & Policy,Koha Architecture
Hello,
As of Koha 3.2.x, we are using Koha as a single language ILS in marc tags and policies, where marc bib tags, auth tags, policy descriptions are displayed in one language only at an instance. As shown below with our Arabic Koha 3.2.3 installed, you will notice that in spite that the interface is in English (Left-to-Right) orientation the marc fields tags and policy elements descriptions are still displayed in Arabic because there are only single fields structure to carry these elements.
marc Bibliographic tags:
http://alshafallah.maktabat-online.net/cgi-bin/koha/opac-MARCdetail.pl?bibli... marc Authority tags:
http://alshafallah.maktabat-online.net/cgi-bin/koha/opac-authoritiesdetail.p... < http://alshafallah.maktabat-online.net/cgi-bin/koha/opac-authoritiesdetail.p...
Library, Branches Groups: http://alshafallah.maktabat-online.net:8080/cgi-bin/koha/admin/branches.pl
I recall hat the issue of having Koha supporting more than one language, for its marc fields tags and policy descriptive names in one instance, has been raised before, but until today we are not sure if something had been done about it or the issue is still in the pipelines for future Koha releases.
Please, does anyone know more about this issue ? I recall that I have read in one of the Koha digest posts that a German Koha was built with English and German infrastructure to allow using either language in all of its user interface including marc tags and policy descriptive names. Thanks for any guidance on this.
Thanks Massoud M. AlShareef,
KnowledgeWare Technologies
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