Ontology in several languages

Omeka S
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I am creating an ontology with Protégé. This ontology has multi language properties such as:

<rdfs:label xml:lang="en">citeApparatName</rdfs:label>
<rdfs:label xml:lang="fr">citeApparatNom</rdfs:label>

When importing the ontology to Omeka S, only the first occurence of a property’s label is imported. In the example above, it is the English rdfs label which is used in Omeka S.

If I change the order (such as below) it is the french label which is used.

<rdfs:label xml:lang="fr">citeApparatNom</rdfs:label>
<rdfs:label xml:lang="en">citeApparatName</rdfs:label>

Protégé will not move in first place the language label set as the default (ie "switch to defining ontology). So I have to manually put all the French label in first with a text editor.

Shouldn’t Omeka S looks for the language of the installation/site and uses it to display rdfs labels and comments in the correct language?

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The way it works currently is that there’s just one label, as you say. We don’t have a place in the data model for storing more than one label for a property so we’ve just got the one. The translation system allows for translations of property labels, as does the use of alternative labels in resource templates (on a more case-by-case basis).

Adding support for multiple language-tagged property labels would be possible of course, but I don’t think we’ve had an experience where it’s particularly common for a vocabulary document to contain a significant amount of multilingual labels, and even then the scope of languages covered would be rather ad-hoc and small.

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Thanks for the answer. I understand it is a very particular need.