This question came from a MN state agency webmaster using my recommended ISO date standard. Any comments appreciated.
I am having a problem with the ISO 8601 Date standard (i.e. 2000-12-13). There appears to be no way to express dates such as "August 2000" or "Spring-Summer 1999", which regularly appear on the items in question (I am building a citaiton database). Do you know if the DC community has bumped into this issue and come up with a preferred workaround (i.e. include the "human readable" format as a note...). I could translate to ISO8601 for the sake of storage/ordering, but want the natural language dates for display.
Eileen Quam
Information Architect
Minnesota Dept. of Natural Resources
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