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

[Richard MAHONEY]

Hi Scott,

On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 10:44, Scott Yeadon wrote:

> > Granted that using something such as:
> >
> > <dcvalue element="date" qualifier="issued">1964-1970</dcvalue>
> >
> > in one's `dublin_core.xml' file seems practical and expedient, on my
> > system at least -- DSpace-1.4.0 -- such an approach breaks DSpace's
> > `Browse by Title', `Browse by Date', and the offending item's `Brief
> > View'.
> >   
> > This is the reason I first asked the lists for details of how one
> > should _correctly_ represent a date range in the DSpace
> > `dublin_core.xml' file. Using `1964-1970' and so on simply does not
> > seem to work.
   
> It's likely that this is because the default metadata display is not
>  able to render date ranges properly. In your DSpace config file put
>  the following entry:

> webui.itemdisplay.default = ... dc.date.issued, ... 

done

> The date.issued field is by default formatted to a date (see
>  ItemTag.java for the hardcoded list) using the "dc.date.issued(date)" 
> field display text. Removing the "(date)" part of this will stop any
>  special rendering taking place.

> Also, setting:

> webui.itemlist.columns = dc.date.issued, ...

ditto

> in the dspace.cfg file may also resolve your ranges not showing up in 
> the browse page (the default specifies "dc.date.issued(date)"), so as 
> above removing the rendering rules should fix this)

Thank you very much for this suggestion Scott. With a small test sample
this makes all the ranges visible when browsing. Once I've prepared and
loaded a decent number of records following the `1964-1970' pattern
I'll test the sorting and so on.


Kind regards,

 Richard


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