[Koha] Publication dates in Koha

[Nicole Engard]

Sorry - other way around - my publicationyear field is empty for all
records ...

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Nicole Engard <nengard at 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 at 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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>> Robin Sheat
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