1.2 Translations

The majority of text elements in the Goobi viewer are available in multilingual messages_*.properties files. These individual text elements can be overwritten via local messages_*.properties files (one file for each supported language) to adapt standard names to your individual requirements. These text elements can be the names of the links and headings, for example, or entire text passages such as your welcome text.

In addition, names for your digital collections, metadata and structure elements are defined in the local messages_*.properties files, since these are usually customer-specific and therefore not contained in standard message files. To spare your visitors imprecise (or unclear) names, you should create entries in the local messages_*.properties files for each of your collections, metadata and structure types. The .properties files are structured according to the following pattern: key=value.

One example is as follows:

messages_de.properties

MD_TITLE=Titel

The above entry in messages_de.properties causes the Goobi Viewer to display Titel instead of the Solr field name MD_TITLE for users who have selected German as their language. For each supported language there must be an entry for the key MD_TITLE in the respective file. For languages without a corresponding entry, the key MD_TITLE is displayed to the user instead.

If a simple text editor is used to edit messages.properties files, non-ASCII characters must be escaped with their corresponding Unicode sequence:

messages_de.properties

AttachedWork=Beigef\u00FCgtes Werk

Defines the name Beigefügtes Werk for the AttachedWork structure type. A list of common Unicode special characters is:

Character	Codierung
ä	\u00E4
Ä	\u00C4
ö	\u00F6
Ö	\u00D6
ü	\u00FC
Ü	\u00DC
ß	\u00DF
ó	\u00F3
á	\u00E1
é	\u00E9
í	\u00ED
ú	\u00FA
ã	\u00E3