OpenEnergyPlatform / oemetadata

Repository for the Open Energy Family metadata. Contains metadata templates, examples and schemas. For metadata conversion see https://github.com/OpenEnergyPlatform/omi
https://openenergyplatform.github.io/oemetadata/
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Multilingual metadata - evaluate on translating into other languages #77

Open Ludee opened 2 years ago

Ludee commented 2 years ago

There is a request from France to have a translated version for a local research project. @SachaHq

In order to be also used in other context and lower barriers it should be discussed if it is a good idea to have additional translations for non-English speakers.

In general we can investigate and discuss different approaches for multilingual metadata:

  1. Translate all keys and corresponding descriptions pro: More people can use it; Can be handled by OMI contra: More work to maintain additional versions; Native speakers needed
  2. Create translated user interfaces that use the English metadata pro: Only one version to maintain contra: Metadata outside the interface are not usable for some

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