Re: dates

From: Truitt, Marc <marc.truitt_at_nyob>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 08:22:58 -0600
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
On 07/26/2011 08:07 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
> I wish a next-generation library catalog would include a field for
> date, not the date of the publication, but the date the thing was
> conceived. I'm tired of seeing works containing the dialogs of Plato >
and having a date of 1986 or whatever. IMHO, dumb!
> 


I like this idea.  Perhaps an element for a FRBR Work record?

Of course, in the current climate toward creation of rich metadata, it
might be a hard sell to the bean counters.

[sigh]

- mt

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