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NYPL Project to transcribe and parse pages from the US Catalog of Copyright Entries
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Normalize regDate #6

Closed seanredmond closed 6 years ago

seanredmond commented 6 years ago

DCL proposes normalizing the registration date to YYY-MM-DD

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<regDate>1951-03-06</regDate>
seanredmond commented 6 years ago

I can see a couple of other options:

Make the normalized version an attribute of regDate

<regDate nomalized="1951-03-06">6Mar51</regDate>

Or, taking a cue from #5, make the normalized data an attribute of copyrightEntry

<copyrightEntry id=”GUID” regnum=”A53538” regdate="1951-03-06">

and either leaving the regDate element for the unnormalized version or just doing away with it.

In my experience attributes are easier to deal with in processing than tag contents, so making the normalized date an attribute will be a plus for later script writers.

seanredmond commented 6 years ago

date attribute on various elements