Citation Linker translations

Tags: multilinguage , translation , elympics , sfx , google-translation
Last Updated: Apr 01, 2010 09:40

Description
SFX 3 does not support translation of Citation Linker. Using Google's website translator is possible to provide users with up to 52 language versions of the Citation Linker. Translations are provided by Google Translate service.
Author: Jiri Pavlik
Additional author(s):
Institution: MULTIDATA Praha s.r.o.
Year: 2010
License: GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation or the Artistic License version 2.0.
Short description: Use, modification and distribution of the code are permitted provided the copyright notice, list of conditions and disclaimer appear in all related material.
Link to terms: GPL , Artistic License
Skill required for using this code:
Intermediate

State
Programming language
Software requirements
Screen captures
Author(s) homepage
Download
Working example
Using the following Ex Libris open interfaces
Changes

Version 1.0

Release notes
Installation instructions
TO DO list
Known issues
Comments

State

Stable

Programming language

HTML, Javascript

Software requirements

SFX 3

Screen captures

Author(s) homepage

Download

Working example

http://sfx.is.cuni.cz/sfxlcl3/cgi/core/citation-linker.cgi

http://info.jib.cz/dokumenty/citation-linker/

Using the following Ex Libris open interfaces

HTML templates

Changes

Version 1.0

Most likely the final version.

Release notes

Google translation is very easy and quick way how to provide multilingual version of a web pages. The translations are not perfect, currently cannot be locally, manually tuned, however enable foreign users basic understanding of the pages. The Google's website translator may be also interesting alternative for SFX native Translation Tool for translation SFX menu and SFX AZ. It enables to overcome currently missing possibility in SFX 3 to translate target name, service target name, authentication and note fields.

Installation instructions

Following code sample shows HTML snippet for providing pull-down menu component with a list of all languages provided by Google translate service:

It is possible to customize the list of languages using the snippet code generator tool available at http://translate.google.com/translate_tools

Insert the code into one of the Citation Linker HTML templates following instructions in Ex Libris documentation.

Customize list of provided languages according to your library users needs.

TO DO list

Known issues

Translations are not perfect.

Comments

SFX 4 may natively support Citation Linker translations. Then it would be possible to create multilingual version of the Citation Linker using SFX Translations & Display tool.