[Koha] Publication dates in Koha

[Nicole Engard]

Anyone have any ideas about why my publicationyear is empty?

Nicole

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 11:30 PM, Nicole Engard <nengard at 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 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.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Robin Sheat
>>> Catalyst IT Ltd.
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>>>