[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Full author date on individual titles?

[Galen Charlton]

Hi,

On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Tony Bandy <tonyb at ohionet.org> wrote:
> 2.  Now if I select that particular title:
>
> http://blanchester.cool-cat.org/eg/opac/record/930326?query=Sandford%2C%20John.;qtype=author;locg=111
>
> The results are:
>
> Sandford, John, 1944-   Cook, Michele.

Thanks for providing the example.  It turns out that
opac/parts/record/authors.tt2 is in fact responsible for displaying

100 1# ‡a Sandford, John, ‡d 1944 February 23-

as

Sandford, John, 1944-

or more to the point:

<span class="rdetail-author-div" typeof="Person" property="author"
resource="#schemacontrib1">
  <a href="/eg/opac/results?...">
    <span property="name">Sandford, John,</span>
    <span property="birthDate">1944</span>-</span></a>
  &nbsp
</span>

Specifically, as part of generating the schema.org markup, only the
year component of "1944 February 23-" is kept.  The normalization is
done in the following lines of authors.tt2:

IF subfield.textContent.match('^\s*\d{4}');
  birthdate = subfield.textContent.replace('^\s*(\d{4}).*$', '$1');
END;

I *think* that better markup for the birth date in this case would be
the following, but I'm hoping Dan Scott can advise further:

<time property="birthDate" datetime="1944-02-23">1994 February 23-</time>

Or, to avoid putting in a full date string parser into the template,
perhaps something like this:

<time property="birthDate" datetime="1944">1994 February 23-</time>

Regards,

Galen
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