One of our journal teams wants articles to be available in 4 different languages, all the translations will be done off the system and the language of the journal site will remain in English as it is now. LINK 2021 Practice-led Research Conference Proceedings
The original language versions (mainly English) will be added first via quick submit. In turn a DOI assigned and automatically sent to Crossref.
From my understanding, we will need to add each translated version as a separate submission as to get its own DOI as required by Crossref and to acknowledge the work of the translator (DOIs for Translation/Version - Metadata Manager - The Crossref Community Forum). Under author metadata on OJS we will identify the translator and author.
For now I assume that for each translated article I have to either cancel the auto DOI deposit, and deposit each manually into metadata manager so that the correct translation information metadata information is showing (alternatively submit them automatically and edit them in metadata manager). If itās possible to avoid this time-consuming job Iād be most appreciative. DOIs for Translation/Version - #10 by edamasio - Metadata Manager - The Crossref Community Forum
(I know there are already threads on the forum already but they are very jumbled and some quite old!)
My impression is currently thereās no automated option, youād have to deposit the XML manually. Isaac from CrossRef offered a mockup of the hasTranslation/isTranslationOf relation if you need help with the XML:
We have developed a plugin to help with this process:
It offers three main features:
Make it easy to copy a pre-existing submission to serve as a translated version, avoiding having to manually insert the metadata from the original version.
When registering the DOI, it automatically sends Crossref the hasTranslation/isTranslationOf relationship, as recommended by Crossref.
Adds links between the versions in each language to make it easier for editors and readers to find all the versions of the same submission.
Thanks to REGEPE - Entrepreneurship and Small Business Journal for funding the development by Lepidus.