As a contribution to the discussion, here are the dates we specified for
the Reuters Metadata Standard. They're listed in rough chronological
order. We had to stretch the definition of DC.date slightly and this is
what we ended up with.
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Description DC name
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Reference Date (start) DC.coverage.t.min
Reference Date (end) DC.coverage.t.max
Reference Date (period) DC.coverage.t.period
Date Created DC.date.created
Date Source Published DC.source.date.published
Date Added to Database DC.date.published
Date Last Modified DC.date.lastModified
Date Indexed DC.date.indexed
Date Live DC.date.live
Date Expires DC.date.expires
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