Collection: Contents Date Range
This property is: Optional.
Definition
The range of dates of creation of the individual items in the collection.
Examples
| Value | Explanation |
|---|---|
| 1970/2000 | The individual journals for the Sixteenth Century Journal collection in JSTOR are from 1970 to 2000 inclusive. |
| 1988/1988 | The individual items in the collection were created in 1988 only. |
| 1100/ | The range of dates of creation of the individual items (catalogue records) in the Copac collection is from 1100 onwards. |
| 1970-06/1970-08 | The collection's individual items were created from June 1970 to August 1970 inclusive. |
| 2005-03-01/2000-03-31 | The collection's individual items were created from 1 March 2005 to 31 March 2005 inclusive. |
| 1791/1799 | The Statistical Accounts of Scotland collection's individual items were created at the same time as thier intellectual coverage; 1791 to 1799 inclusive and 1834 to 1845 inclusive. |
| 1834/1845 |
Guidelines
Enter a date range as a value for this property: two dates separated by a forward-slash ("/"). Each date is defined in a profile of ISO 8601, known as the W3CDTF format, and follows the "YYYY-MM-DD" format. If the full date is unknown, month and year ("YYYY-MM") or just year ("YYYY") may be used. Null dates may be used for either date to indicate open-ended date ranges.
Centuries and decades start at year 1, and end at year 0. For example, the 19th century would be entered as 1801/1900. The 1960s would be entered as 1961/1970. Note that BC/BCE dates cannot currently be recorded.
Contents Date Range versus Temporal
Another property is used to describe the temporal coverage of the intellectual content of the items in the collection: Temporal.
An example of the difference between the properties might include a collection describing some aspect of the 19th century, but with the items themselves created in 2003. In that case, the value for Temporal would be 1801/1900 and the Contents Date Range value would be 2003/2003. Another example is the Sixteenth Century Journal collection from JSTOR. The journal covers 16th century history and individual journals are available in JSTOR from 1970 to 2000 inclusive. Therefore the value for Temporal is 1601/1700 and that for Contents Date Range is 1970/2000.
It is possible that the value for Contents Date Range and Temporal might have the same value. For example, if a digital satellite image file is created at the same time as the image of the earth is taken, then the individual item is created at the same time as its intellectual content.
If the collection is a catalogue, index or hierarchical finding aid, then the value for Contents Date Range describes the intellectual content of the catalogue, index or hierarchical finding aid records themselves (not the intellectual content of the collection the catalogue describes). For example, the Copac collection is a catalogue. Contents Date Range describes the intellectual content of the catalogue records themselves, which for Copac is from 1100 onwards (the first catalogue records in Copac were created around 1100).
References
- [W3CDTF] http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime
Occurrence
Repeatable: there may be multiple values for this property. Enter each value into its own text box.