[Koha] Publication dates in Koha

[Nicole Engard]

Okay mine is: copyrightdate 	260 	c 	

So, if you can't map to a fixed field and I have never changed my
mapping then my original comment was correct?

Nicole

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Fischer, Katrin
<Katrin.Fischer at bsz-bw.de> wrote:
> 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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