Anyone have any ideas about why my publicationyear is empty? Nicole
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 11:30 PM, Nicole Engard <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
