[Koha-bugs] [Bug 11046] New: keeping uncertain or range dates in publicationyear and copyright date

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            Bug ID: 11046
           Summary: keeping uncertain or range dates in publicationyear
                    and copyright date
 Change sponsored?: ---
           Product: Koha
           Version: master
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P5 - low
         Component: Cataloging
          Assignee: gmcharlt at gmail.com
          Reporter: mathieu.saby at univ-rennes2.fr
        QA Contact: testopia at bugs.koha-community.org
                CC: m.de.rooy at rijksmuseum.nl

In C4:Biblio::TransformMarcToKoha, publicationyear and copyrightdate are filled
from MARC dates.
MARC dates could be uncertain. like "200X", "2012?", "ca. 2012".
If there is a "X" or a blank, the date is not copied in database.
Maybe this could be fixed. But in that case, publicationyear and copyrightdate
will sometimes contain non numerical data. Maybe that's an issue?

Sometime MARC dates are a range, like "2010-2013". In that case, Koha is
currently using only the first one. Why not both?

Last remark : In UNIMARC, I don't know the difference between publicationyear
and copyrightdate. Is it obvious for MARC21 people ?

M. Saby

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