Hi, the DOAJ Plugin gets language information (for the tag ‘language’ in the export file) from the field ‘language’ in table ‘articles’. Yet this field contains more than one language code for articles that are available in multiple languages, e.g. “en; de; es”. In these cases, the codes are not r…

Hi, I suggest you fix this in code if you will always use the same language. First take a backup file and then change DOAJExportDom.inc.php line 62 XMLCustomWriter::createChildWithText($doc, $root, 'language', DOAJExportDom::mapLang($article->getLanguage()), false); to XMLCustomWriter::createCh…

Hi @alirezaaa , thank you for your suggestion but we prefer an inherent solution over code changes to some of our installations. And I assume others would profit as well if the DOAJ plugin would be compatible with multi-language articles. best, Carola

Hi @carola Hmmm… Yes, in case that there are several languages in the article metadata language field, the function is not working properly and probably no language element is exported in DOAJ XML. I opened a new issue for that, s. DOAJ language export · Issue #1690 · pkp/pkp-lib · GitHub . I am ac…

Hi all, I would suggest using the article locale $article->getLocale(). The language field is not standardized or machine-readable, but the locale is. Other parts of the system rely upon it for similar purposes. Regards, Alec Smecher Public Knowledge Project Team

Hi @asmecher and @bozana , the article locale is the submission language, isn’t it? Is it possible to change in the GUI after submitting the article? I did not find anything. best, Carola

Hi @carola , The article locale should be the submission language. If it’s not currently possible to change it, then that should also be added. Regards, Alec Smecher Public Knowledge Project Team

Hi @carola The changes are merged into the ojs-dev-2_4 branch and you could test if that works for you :slight_smile: Best Bozana

Hi @bozana , DOAJ just wrote: DOAJ will pick up only one language tag and that is always the first one presented in the XML. Sorry, I did not know this before, I thought the language tag determines what language they pick. But regardless of that, taking the submission language to determine wha…

Hi @carola and @marchitelli Thanks a lot for the information! I’ve just send an e-mail to ask if it matters what language journal registers to DOAJ – if DOAJ has any preferences/policies/requirements… there. When I get the answer, I will either implement a possibility to chose a preferred language …

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Hi @bozana and @carola, it is the same issue that I already reported: DOAJ export plugin.
I think that it can be useful for the development of the new DOAJ export plugin
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