210$d, curently indexed as pubdate, contains the date of the document The content can be a complex string like "impr. 2010, cop. 2009" (according to cataloguing standard). Not sure how zebra For ancient books, the date could be in latin numbers (MCM...) Zebra does not like that ;-) Dates are also in roman numbers 100 coded field. In fact there is 2 dates (pos 9-12 and 13-16) and a code in pos 8 giving the type of date. In most case the 1st date should be indexed and not the 2d one. Other issue : Sometimes date are uncertain and if the decade only is known, we will have 198X in 210 field, and "198 " (but I have found 198X and 198. in real word...). Zebra does not like that too... M. Saby
An other option would be to declare pubdate index both on 210$d AND 100pos9-12 So, if a library does not have 100 filled, the record will still be indexed with 210. M. Saby
in MARC21 : 261$c is index in "copydate" 210 is the UNIMARC equivalent. So let's index too 210$d in "copydate"
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 11202 ***