[Koha] Publication dates in Koha

[Fischer, Katrin]

Hi Nicole,

what is your Koha-to-Marc-Mapping for 260$c? Is it mapped to copyrightdate or publicationyear? The mappings are always 1:1, so one of the fields in your database will always be empty. The mappings don't work with fixed fields right now.

Hope that helps,

Katrin


> -----Original Message-----
> From: koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-
> bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Nicole Engard
> Sent: Friday, May 11, 2012 1:37 PM
> To: Robin Sheat
> Cc: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz; Tobin, Jessica L
> Subject: Re: [Koha] Publication dates in Koha
> 
> 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.
> >>>
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