Hi Nicole, what is your Koha-to-Marc-Mapping for 260$c? Is it mapped to copyrightdate or publicationyear? The mappings are always 1:1, so one of the fields in your database will always be empty. The mappings don't work with fixed fields right now.
Hope that helps, Katrin > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:koha- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Nicole Engard > Sent: Friday, May 11, 2012 1:37 PM > To: Robin Sheat > Cc: [email protected]; Tobin, Jessica L > Subject: Re: [Koha] Publication dates in Koha > > Anyone have any ideas about why my publicationyear is empty? > > Nicole > > On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 11:30 PM, Nicole Engard <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sorry - other way around - my publicationyear field is empty for all > > records ... > > > > On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Nicole Engard <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Robin, > >> > >> I have searched my DB and I do have clean records with dates in the > >> fixed fields, but copydate is empty in my DB. That's why someone has > >> said it was a unimarc thing ... ideas? > >> > >> Nicole > >> > >> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Robin Sheat <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>> Nicole Engard schreef op wo 02-05-2012 om 19:48 [-0700]: > >>>> Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression > >>>> that the first was for Marc21 and the latter for Unimarc dates. And > >>>> that this data came from the 260. > >>> > >>> It's much more complicated than that. copydate is in a control > >>> field, I forget which right now, as a fixed-length set of digits. > >>> pubdate is in 260$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 _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org [email protected] http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
