Maybe a delimiter t? Copyright and publication date reversed? Or a
reprint delimiter r?
Just weird thoughts on my part...
Thank you I'll go back to lurking now.
Jerri Swinehart
MLIS
Library Technician III
Oakland University
Kresge Library
Technical Services
Rochester, MI 48309-4484
swinehar_at_oakland.edu
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Ted Koppel <tpk_at_auto-graphics.com> wrote:
> Do you really want to ignite the types of arguments that would (no doubt) follow?
>
> When was the Old Testament created? Historians and scholars could make a case for a span of thousands of years.
>
> What about the New Testament? One could make a case for 0AD, but the more accurate date would be in the 4th century somewhere.
>
> And those two are just for starters.
>
> Your point about Plato / 1986 is well taken, but is the solution more or less harmful than the problem?
>
> Ted
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> 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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