[Koha-bugs] [Bug 7487] New: biblioitems.publicationdate is unpopulated in default configuration

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             Bug #: 7487
           Summary: biblioitems.publicationdate is unpopulated in default
                    configuration
    Classification: Unclassified
 Change sponsored?: ---
           Product: Koha
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: minor
          Priority: P5 - low
         Component: Cataloging
        AssignedTo: gmcharlt at gmail.com
        ReportedBy: ruth at bywatersolutions.com
         QAContact: koha.sekjal at gmail.com


In Comment 4 of Bug 6402, Owen notes that biblioitems.publicationyear is not
populated in the default MARC mapping, so the sort issue described in that bug
is not exactly solved.  

The same problem obtains in OPAC searching; sort-by-year will give
seemingly-random results, as it's using biblioitems.publicationyear as the sort
field.

C4::Biblio::TransferMarcToKoha will deal with publicationyear in the same
manner as it deals with biblio.copyrightdate, finding the first numeric date
and using that, but that requires that the field be mapped from some MARC tag. 
Therefore, this is purely a default-configuration problem.

I suggest as a default config that 260$c be used for MARC21 configs.  If
someone will tell me what to use for UNIMARC, I'll put both in a patch to the
default database creation routines.

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