incompete dates on AO items default to XX00 dates

Open DuncanDHall opened this issue 3 years ago • 1 comments

Old issue raised by Jeff Kaplan in 2017 in Jira: https://webarchive.jira.com/browse/OL-317

When a book's archive.org/metadata lists publication date as "[18--?]" it shows up in openlibrary as specifically "1800".

Evidence / Screenshot (if possible)

https://archive.org/details/plaintalesfromth00kipliala https://archive.org/metadata/plaintalesfromth00kipliala https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7197646M/Plain_tales_from_the_hills

Proposal & Constraints

Interpret this form of date metadata differently, perhaps as "1800s"?

Stakeholders

@JeffKaplan

Jul 13 '22 18:07 DuncanDHall

Related discussions on edition date issues: #806 #2039 #2711 #3391 #3421 #3496 #3746 #5333 #6021 #6038

tldr: consensus is to convert to, store, and sort on EDTF formats

Jul 20 '22 16:07 LeadSongDog