museum-digital:blog - Translations

Hindi

2025-07-13T00:00:00+00:00

After Kannada, Tamil and Telugu, museum-digital can now also be browsed in Hindi. As always, thanks and enjoy!

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Browse museum-digital in: Telugu

2025-07-02T00:00:00+00:00

After we were gladly able to release the Tamil translation of museum-digital’s public portals last week, we are equally glad to do so with the all-new Telugu translation.

As always, many thanks to everyone who’s made that possible!

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Kannada

2025-03-25T00:00:00+00:00

There’s lots of talk about the FAIR principles - publishing findable and accessible data. Logically, to be findable and accessible, the data should at the very least be described in the language of users, even if it is not itself translated. And that means, that before object information becomes multilingual, platforms should become (more) multilingual and especially cover languages that may not be in the first line of languages covered by your next-door Large Language Model for translation.

Today we can gladly announce another large step for making museum-digital more findable and accessible: The frontend is now available in Kannada.

Users with browsers set to using Kannada as their main language will now automatically see the Kannada translation of the site navigation etc. Others can select to navigate the site in Kannada using the language selector at the top right.

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musdb and frontend available in French and Russian

2022-11-08T00:00:00+00:00

In the last month we have been able to finally release the long-anticipated French and Russian translations of the frontend of museum-digital as well as musdb. A Ukrainian translation is currently being worked on as well. Thanks a lot to the colleagues from Speyer and Berlin-Karlshorst for organizing and translating!

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"Smarter" Entry of Links to Vocabularies in musdb

2020-09-21T00:00:00+00:00

Many imports of data confront us with Places like “Berlin ?” and times like “ca. 1328” konfrontiert. The import tool of museum-digital has been able to handle such entries for quite a time: “Berlin ?” is recognized to mean that the place is actually “Berlin”, but that the entry is not made with complete certainty.

In a similar fashion, the vocabulary control tool of museum-digital, nodac, has been able to parse and normalize time names for some times. While the canonical formulation of e.g. a single day is the German date format DD.MM.YYYY, similar times like “15. Januar 1920” (German) or “1920. január 15” (Hungarian) are entered often. These would have been transformed into 15.01.1920 upon the push of a button and then translated to many languages upon the push of another.

In line with some larger imports, we have now improved these and moved them into a dedicated module, that are now also used in the general input tool, musdb.

Recognizing Uncertainty and Normalizing Times in musdb

musdb can thus recognize uncertainty based on a given list of indicators of uncertainty. In the case of times, these are e.g. “um “ (“about” in German), “wohl um “ (“likely about”), “circa “, “ca. “ oder “ca “ in the beginning of an entered time term and “(?)” oder “?” at its end. If one of these indicators is present, the time name is freed of the indicator and the entry is saved as uncertain. The same works with links between events and actors and places.

Entering a place with an indicator of uncertainty …

… the indicator is stripped off the entry and translated into uncertainty of the reference.

In a similar fashion, many entered times can be automatically normalized and cleaned. Thus far, entries in German and Hungarian for single days and months (15. January 1920 and January 1920) can thus be automatically parsed and cleaned.

Entering a normalizable and uncertain time ….

… results in a normalized entry. The reference to the event is stored as uncertain.

Together with normalizing the time term, the entries can in many cases be automatically translated. This is especially important for times before 1000 CE, where an indication of whether they are BCE or CE is often necessary for a quick understanding. This is thus far implemented for time spans before 1000 CE: “312 - 315” is automatically translated to “312-315 n. Chr” in German, “312-315 CE” in English and “西暦312年から315年” in Japanese.

Batch Publishing or Hiding by Object Selection

A small improvement on a sidenote, we have now added batch publishing and hiding of objects to the options available through the object selection tool in musdb. To use it, the objects to be manipulated can be selected by first dragging one with the mouse and then clicking on the others. Finally, the respective menu option at the top of the page (red in the screenshot can be pressed).

Menu options for batch hiding or publishing can be found at the top right (in red borders).

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Türkçe

2020-02-05T00:00:00+00:00

The frontend of museum-digital is now available in Turkish. As a very nice side effect, this also unlocks the Turkish translations for keywords, and place and actor names we have been gathering for the last half a year.

A screenshot of the public frontend of museum-digital in Turkish. Currently, the “advanced search” page is opened.

Image credits: Eva Gonzalès: „Girl Awakening“, Kunsthalle Bremen – Der Kunstverein in Bremen (CC BY-NC-SA)

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