Rebecca S. Guenther wrote:
> The <date> in mods:part uses the same attributes as the specific forms of
> dates under originInfo, i.e. encoding, point, qualifier. Since <part>
> under <relatedItem> is intended to generate a citation, it is used to
> indicate the chronology on the host item. So if you were describing an
> article which was in a specific volume and issue of a journal issued
> on a specific date, you would use this in mods:part/date. (so, yes, it is
> like dateIssued). The point was to keep it associated with all the other
> information under <part> to generate a citation or OpenURL.
But in practice this becomes tricky to figure out both how to code, and
to process. The year of publication is always really critical for
sorting and such, and in order to figure that out for an article, I have
to have a pretty messy XSLT rule that says "look at mods:dateIssued,
mods:relatedItem//mods:dateIssued, and mods:part/mods:date, and choose
the first one you find."
And I frankly get confused when contemplating a date associated with a
journal article, because I think it would be legitimate to think of that
as simultaneously the dateIssued for the article, and the journal issue.
I guess I'm leaning towards not using using date at all, except to hold
akward stuff like "Spring/Summer."
> Yours would be coded as follows (or maybe
> I'm missing something?):
Nope; I missed it :-)
Thanks.
Bruce
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