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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>In EAD, you can use the calendar attribute to specify the calendar in the date and unitdate elements. See the 2nd paragraph in the description here: <a href="http://www.loc.gov/ead/tglib/elements/date.html">http://www.loc.gov/ead/tglib/elements/date.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>A non-Gregorian date cannot be rendered in ISO 8601 because ISO 8601 is specific to the Gregorian calendar. See <a href="http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail?csnumber=40874">http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail?csnumber=40874</a>. Uncertain dates can be rendered in EDTF, which is an extension of ISO 8601. Here is the website for EDTF: <a href="http://www.loc.gov/standards/datetime/">http://www.loc.gov/standards/datetime/</a>. EDTF is still in draft status, but a lot of people are using it anyway.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Kate James<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Policy and Standards Division<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Library of Congress<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Deborah J. Leslie<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, July 06, 2015 11:58 AM<br><b>To:</b> DCRM Users' Group<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [DCRM-L] EAD date normal for Lady Day dates<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1F497D'>Are you talking about MARC encoding for a bib record? Encode the fixed fields for the modern Gregorian equivalent, and use field 046 for non-modern-Gregorian dates as they appear on the resource. Here's our documentation, if you find it useful: <a href="http://folgerpedia.folger.edu/MARC_046_Special_Coded_Dates_%28Bibliographic%29">http://folgerpedia.folger.edu/MARC_046_Special_Coded_Dates_%28Bibliographic%29</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#31849B'>Deborah J. Leslie | Folger Shakespeare Library | <a href="mailto:djleslie@folger.edu">djleslie@folger.edu</a> | 202.675-0369 | 201 East Capitol St., SE, Washington, DC 20003 | www. folger.edu<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu">dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu</a> [<a href="mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu">mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Auyong, Dorothy<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 01 July 2015 20:30<br><b>To:</b> DCRM Users' Group<br><b>Subject:</b> [DCRM-L] EAD date normal for Lady Day dates<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Off the wall question for DCRM, but I’ve gone blind trying to hack EAD and ISO 8601 trying to find the answer.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>How does one render double-dated (i.e. both Gregorian and Julian dates) or Lady Day dates in a normalized date element? Or for that matter “or” dates. I’m taking examples from the draft of DCRM(MSS)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><date <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>normal=” “ >1603/1604 March 15</date><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><date normal=” “>1866 or 1867</date> [Hebrew calendar example]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Etc.?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The easiest solution of course is not to supply a normalized date element and move on, but I did wonder if the answer was out there.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Dorothy Auyong<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Principal Catalog Librarian/Archivist<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Henry E. Huntington Library<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Acquistions Cataloging and Metadata Services<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:dauyong@huntington.org">dauyong@huntington.org</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>