Oh dear. Turns out there is a lot of nasty hard-wired stuff in the C++ code for the DateList classifier. Unless you want to get your hands dirty with this, you might be better off just assigning to Date.

Obviously this isn't ideal, and rest assured it isn't like this with Greenstone 3!!

Regards,

Michael
 
 

"Dwyer, Benjamin J" wrote:

 I have tried changing the DateList.pm as suggested, however if I click on the 'Dates' button in the collection, it tries to load the page and takes forever.Also the server.exe application that starts Greenstone freezes? Is there a possibility that there is a reference to the 'Date' metadata that needs to be changed elsewhere?

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From: Stephen.DeGabrielle@cdu.edu.au [mailto:Stephen.DeGabrielle@cdu.edu.au]
Sent: Monday, 15 September 2003 2:11 PM
To: Michael Dewsnip
Cc: greenstone-users@list.scms.waikato.ac.nz; Dwyer, Benjamin J
Subject: Re: [greenstone-users] DateList Classifier
 

I've had a fair bit of success just diving into the (well commented) perl code and changing stuff to see what happens.

I would suggest changing line 101 of perllib/classify/DateList.pm from

     my $date = $doc_obj->get_metadata_element ($doc_obj->get_top_section(), 'Date');

to

    my $date = $doc_obj->get_metadata_element ($doc_obj->get_top_section(), 'dc.Date');

I am not a developer, but I think this would probably work.
 
 

s.

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>Michael Dewsnip <mdewsnip@cs.waikato.ac.nz>
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> To: "Dwyer, Benjamin J" <benjamin.dwyer@education.tas.gov.au>
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>Hi Ben,
>
>According to the DateList.pm module (in perllib/classify), the correct format for the dates is yyyymmdd (ie. the second variant you tried).
>
>I think the problem is that DateList assumes that the date metadata is stored in the Date element (not dc.Date) -- and there is no option to change this. I'll add this option to my "to do" list, but for now you can either:
>
>- Assign your date metadata to the Date element (you might have to create this element in the Metadata Set Editor), instead of dc.Date.
>- Edit the DateList.pm file, and change the 'Date' on line 101 to 'dc.Date'.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>Regards,
>
>Michael
>
>
>
>"Dwyer, Benjamin J" wrote:
>
>Hi,
>
>I'm having trouble getting the DateList Classifier to work using the Librarian interface.
>I've created a collection using HTMLPlug, and have given each .html file date metadata in the form of dc.Date.
>I can successfully create a searchable index using dc.Date metadata, however cannot create a Date List classifier.
>I have tried the following date formats: 1900, 19000101, 1900-01-01
>Can anyone help?
>
>Regards,
>
>Ben Dwyer
>
>Service Tasmania Online
>State Library of Tasmania
>
>
> 

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