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

