[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Publication Year in Reports

[Rogan Hamby]

Hi Irene,

Are you using the reporter table for this?  I have seen this before there
and not had the tuits to look into it in any depth since I've only seen it
on rare occasions but checking a few data sets it's not hard to find
examples under a number of scenarios and it's not hard to imagine a regular
expression creating this result.  It's probably worth a launchpad bag and
some discussion on how to handle it.  Maybe we should be checking for a
four digit number and using it when found.

Ultimately that table might get replaced with newer functionality of course
as the pub date field itself isn't RDA friendly but that's another
discussion.


Rogan Hamby

Data and Project Analyst

Equinox Open Library Initiative

phone:  1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457)

email:  rogan at EquinoxInitiative.org
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On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 4:38 PM, Patrick, Irene <irene.patrick at ncdcr.gov>
wrote:

> Has anyone ever noticed that there is some strangeness with the
> Publication Year in Evergreen reports?  The Publication Year is normalized
> in the output, and there seems to be an issue with how the data gets
> normalized.  Some examples of what I am seeing:
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> 264 $c  September 1, 2015    Publication Year in report:  1
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> 264 $c  October 6, 2017         Publication Year in report:  6
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> 264 $c October 31, 2016        Publication Year in report:  31
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> When the date in the 264 is not simply the year, the normalization routine
> seems to be pulling out only a piece of the date, not the full date.
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> I tried looking for any previous reports of this issue in Launchpad but
> didn’t find one.  Apologies if it is there and I missed it.
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