[Dspace-general] DSpace `Dublin Core' | Date Issued | Date Range | How to represent

[Scott Yeadon]

Hi Richard,

It's up to you how you represent your values, you could use the DCMI 
Period or something simple such as "1930-1940". We tend to have the 
latter since that's what our users typically enter. The batch import 
process won't parse the values, as long as the document is valid XML the 
values will be accepted.

Scott.
> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 12:08:16 +1200
> From: Richard MAHONEY <r.mahoney at iconz.co.nz>
> Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace `Dublin Core' | Date Issued | Date
> 	Range |	How to represent
> To: DSpace Tech <dspace-tech at lists.sourceforge.net>,	DSpace General
> 	<dspace-general at mit.edu>
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> Dear List Members,
>
> I am in the process or preparing material for bulk import and have
> again encountered and issue that I was inclined to gloss over last time
> it arose: the format of the DSpace Dublin Core Date Elements,
> Qualifiers, and particularly, the Values.
>
> What exactly is the required Value format and is it configurable?
> Simple date Values such as the following present no difficulty:
>
> <dcvalue element="date" qualifier="issued">1970</dcvalue>
>
> The trouble for me -- and this situation would arise often for many
> projects -- is how to correctly represent date ranges, for e.g., date
> issued, 1964 to 1970. Which Value format should should be used to
> represent a date range in DSpace DC? Some DSpace version of the
> W3C-DTF/ISO 8601 scheme?
>
>  http://dublincore.org/documents/2000/07/28/dcmi-period/
>
>
> Best regards,
>
>  Richard Mahoney
>
>
>