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MODS Element name: <originInfo><dateCreated keyDate="yes"> (Creation date) or <originInfo><dateIssued keyDate="yes"> (Issuance date)

Short definition: System-generated, machine-readable date value derived from either Creation Date or Issuance Date.

Input guidelines: The system will create a machine-readable date element with a keyDate attribute based on the user-provided information for Date created or Date issued. If a date range is specified, only the start date will be used as key date. If textual date information is provided, the key date will be a numerical date approximating the textual date information. The machine-readable date is for instance used for sorting of search results.

Note

The ingest process currently ignores a keyDate attribute set by users when preparing metadata as MODS XML. Instead, the system will create a new machine-readable date element with a keyDate attribute based on dateIssued or dateCreated (in this order and depending on which of the two is available). Any user-provided keyDate attribute will be stripped from the metadata upon ingest.

If you want to designate a specific date element as the key date in metadata prepared for batch ingest, add the following attribute-value pair to the respective element: keyGen="yes".

Definition

System-generated, machine-readable date value derived from either Creation Date or Issuance Date.

DAMS input form fields


System-generated metadata element. These elements cannot be edited in the DAMS metadata web form.

MODS Element description

Element <originInfo>

http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/userguide/origininfo.html

Guidelines for use

<originInfo> is a container element that contains all subelements related to publication and origination information. It includes all dates associated with the creation, issuance, and/or publication of the resource. Dates associated with the temporal content of the resource go under <subject>, and dates associated with the metadata go in <recordInfo>. Data is input only within each subelement.

Attributes

Currently no attributes for originInfo are implemented in the DAMS.

Subelements

The following subelements of <originInfo> are used in the DAMS:

  • dateCreated
  • dateIssued
  • (copyrightDate)
  • (place)
  • (publisher)

Subelement <originInfo><dateCreated>

Guidelines for use

The system will create a machine-readable date element with a keyDate attribute based on the user-provided information for Date created or Date issued. If a date range is specified, only the start date will be used as key date. If textual date information is provided, the key date will be a numerical date approximating the textual date information. The machine-readable date is for instance used for sorting of search results.

Note

The ingest process currently ignores a keyDate attribute set by users when preparing metadata as MODS XML. Instead, the system will create a new machine-readable date element with a keyDate attribute based on dateIssued or dateCreated (in this order and depending on which of the two is available). Any user-provided keyDate attribute will be stripped from the metadata upon ingest.

If you want to designate a specific date element as the key date in metadata prepared for batch ingest, add the following attribute-value pair to the respective element: keyGen="yes".

Attributes

Attribute nameDetailsXPath syntax examples
point

value:

  • start
originInfo/dateCreated[@keyDate="yes" and @point="start"]
keyDate

value:

  • yes
Multiexcerpt
MultiExcerptNameDate-keyDate

The system will create a new machine-readable date element with a keyDate attribute based on the user-provided information for Date created or Date issued. If a date range is specified, only the start date will be used as key date.

originInfo/dateCreated[@keyDate="yes"]
encoding

value:

  • w3cdtf
originInfo/dateCreated[@keyDate="yes" and @encoding="w3cdtf"]

Subelements

No subelements for dateCreated.

Subelement <originInfo><dateIssued>

Guidelines for use

The system will create a machine-readable date element with a keyDate attribute based on the user-provided information for Date created or Date issued. If a date range is specified, only the start date will be used as key date. If textual date information is provided, the key date will be a numerical date approximating the textual date information. The machine-readable date is for instance used for sorting of search results.

Note

The ingest process currently ignores a keyDate attribute set by users when preparing metadata as MODS XML. Instead, the system will create a new machine-readable date element with a keyDate attribute based on dateIssued or dateCreated (in this order and depending on which of the two is available). Any user-provided keyDate attribute will be stripped from the metadata upon ingest.

If you want to designate a specific date element as the key date in metadata prepared for batch ingest, add the following attribute-value pair to the respective element: keyGen="yes".

Attributes

Attribute nameDetailsXPath syntax examples
point

value:

  • start
originInfo/dateIssued[@keyDate="yes" and @point="start"]
keyDate

value:

  • yes

Multiexcerpt include
MultiExcerptNameDate-keyDate
PageWithExcerptKey Date (

WIP

autogenerated)

originInfo/dateIssued[@keyDate="yes"]
encoding

value:

  • w3cdtf
originInfo/dateCreated[@keyDate="yes" and @encoding="w3cdtf"]

Subelements

No subelements for dateIssued.

XML Examples

Code Block
languagexml
collapsetrue
<originInfo>
	<dateCreated keyDate="yes" encoding="w3cdtf" point="start">2001-01-01</dateCreated>
</originInfo>

Mappings

Dublin Core

Depending on the direction of mapping necessary, check

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Dublin Core fieldMapping conditionMODS elementNotes
dc:dateMODS to DCdateCreated[@keyDate="yes"]The date value in the MODS element is prefixed with the text "Created: ".
dc:dateMODS to DCdateIssued[@keyDate="yes"]The date value in the MODS element is prefixed with the text "Issued: ".

MARC 21

see http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/mods-mapping.html#publication. The following specific guidelines apply for the DAMS:

MARC 21 fieldMapping conditionMODS elementNotes
*MARC to MODSdateCreated[@keyDate="yes"]Do not map MARC data into MODS element with attribute keyDate.
*MARC to MODSdateIssued[@keyDate="yes"]Do not map MARC data into MODS element with attribute keyDate.

Solr

In general, all MODS metadata is imported into the DAMS Solr server upon ingest. The ingest process generates Solr fields typically named according to the following schema:

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