Sorry - other way around - my publicationyear field is empty for all records ...
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Nicole Engard <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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. >> ✆ +64 4 803 2204 >> GPG: 5957 6D23 8B16 EFAB FEF8 7175 14D3 6485 A99C EB6D >> _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org [email protected] http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
