Date:         Thu, 1 May 2003 11:16:10 -0700
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From:         Karen Coyle <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:      Re: copyright dates
Comments: To: Tod Olson <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask]
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At 11:28 AM 5/1/2003 -0500, Tod Olson wrote:
>One would not blindly remove any "c" in an AACR2 date, but rather write a
>parser to cover a variety of cases.  This is something of a nightmare,
>given that the date in AACR2 is little better than free text, but the
>majority of cases can be identified and handled.

For the conversion from MARC21 to MODS, wouldn't we want to use the 008
date, which is already normalized, as well as the 260 $c date, which is
really for display? It would be a shame to only keep the 260 $c date and
have to parse it when a fully normalized date is available in the 008.,

kc

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