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>
> ... (How would you
> express Spring?) But if any value can be a text string, I guess (despite my
> philosophical objections!), you could have dc.date = February 1999 or
> dc.date = Spring 1999 or dc.date = 1st Quarter 1999, if the consensus is
> that that's where chronology should go. I'd rather it be there than in
> dc.identifier.
Also please note that for "Spring" to be meaningful as dc.date,
it is necessary to indicate the hemisphere of publication ;-)
(It's mid-winter here in Oz.)
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Best Simon
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