Hi Joseph, the date will be stored in the mangled form. So if you got an item with dc.date.issued= 20?? imported or created a mangled date via editing an item, it will lead to some problems - it will not be displayed properly in default item display - it will not appear in browse lists and so on.
At the moment there is no metadata type to represent "fuzzy" dates, or something like 123 b.c ... For the time being it might be best to create an own metadata field for it and not use it as date type. Hope that helps Claudia Jürgen Joseph Greene schrieb: > Hello all, > > I'm reviewing our metadata input and would like to know if anyone knows what > happens to 'mangled dates'? We had been putting years in like 20?? When > unsure of the exact publication date and I've found the following in the > logs: > > 2008-07-31 12:26:53,293 WARN org.dspace.content.DCDate @ Mangled date: 20?? > Exception: java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "20??" > > How does DSpace handle this error-- what happens to the date? > What do others do to represent unknown dates? > > Many thanks, > > Joseph Greene > Institutional Repository Project Manager > 325 James Joyce Library > University College Dublin > Belfield, Dublin 4 > > 353 (0)1 716 7398 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://irserver.ucd.ie/dspace/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > DSpace-tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
