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What can be learned from 1M+ college course syllabi? (OLD)
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Sometimes a book gets a seemingly arbitrary issue year #10

Open velavokr opened 8 years ago

velavokr commented 8 years ago

http://explorer.opensyllabusproject.org/text/2595909

C : How to Program Deitel, Harvey M., 1945

davidmcclure commented 8 years ago

Hey @velavokr,

This is actually the birth date of the author, not the publication date of the text! Indeed, I don't think C was around in 1945 :)

The author strings are just taken directly from the Harvard Library Cloud MARC records, which often include these birth dates. But, I definitely see how it's confusing. It would be fairly easy to scrub these out when we load the texts into Elasticsearch.

Thanks for flagging.