Anyone have any ideas about why my publicationyear is empty? Nicole On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 11:30 PM, Nicole Engard <nengard@gmail.com> wrote:
Sorry - other way around - my publicationyear field is empty for all records ...
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Nicole Engard <nengard@gmail.com> wrote:
Robin,
I have searched my DB and I do have clean records with dates in the fixed fields, but copydate is empty in my DB. That's why someone has said it was a unimarc thing ... ideas?
Nicole
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Robin Sheat <robin@catalyst.net.nz> wrote:
Nicole Engard schreef op wo 02-05-2012 om 19:48 [-0700]:
Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that the first was for Marc21 and the latter for Unimarc dates. And that this data came from the 260.
It's much more complicated than that. copydate is in a control field, I forget which right now, as a fixed-length set of digits. pubdate is in 260$c and is often irregularly formatted.
If you have good clean records, copydate is better, but in real life what we often do is point copydate in zebra to 260$c and polish them up a bit.
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