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VIVO Language Support

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When a VIVO site supports a language other than English, that support includes:

  • Text that is displayed in the VIVO pages.  For example, menus, selections, prompts, tool-tips and plain text.
  • Text from terms in the Ontology, which are frequently displayed as links or section headings.  Text includes labels and annotations of properties and classes.
  • Text values stored in the data. For example, if a book title is available in both French and English, a French-speaking user sees the French title. If a title is available only in English, it is displayed, without regard to the user's preference in languages.

Languages can be selected in a variety of ways, depending on the installation parameters:

  • A VIVO administrator can configure VIVO to use one of the supported languages.
  • Different users may see different languages, depending on the settings in their web browser.
  • Different users may select a language from a list of available languages.

VIVO language files are available for English (U.S. and Canadian), Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French (Canadian) and German. If you need support for another language, please inquire of the VIVO mailing lists, to see if another group has the files you need.

Adding an existing language to your VIVO site

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  • Edit the vivo_home_dir/config/runtime.properties file in your VIVO home directory:
    • uncomment/add RDFService.languageFilter = true
    • uncomment/add languages.selectableLocales = en_US, de_DE
  • Restart the tomcat
  • You should now be able to select your installed language (in this case German) in the header of your VIVO site

For more details, see How to Enable Enabling Interface Languages in VIVO as an Administrator.

Building VIVO and Vitro language repositories from source (for developers)

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