Hello
I'm looking for some advice regarding normalizing dates. We are
currently updating our EAD catalogues to v2002 and thought it would be a
good opportunity to normalize our dates too. I've seen from previous
messages on this list last year that there are scripts available to do
this, and I think that we will be able to use these. The problem is
that we already have non-ISO8601 dates normalized dates in the following
format:
<unitdate normal="19530817-19640708">1953 Aug 17-1964 July
8</unitdate>
<unitdate normal="1951xxxx-1962xxxx">1951-1975</unitdate>
<unitdate normal="1970xxxx">1970</unitdate>
The way I understand it the script will only work if you do not already
have anything normalized in the tags. Can anyone recommend an easy way
of stripping out these dates so that we can then use the script to
insert new ISO8601 ones.
Many thanks in advance
Victoria West
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