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The Title record in GOKb contains fields to track the dates that a title was published. To populate publication dates, simply enter the "published from" and "published to" dates in the fields provided. The following conventions apply to this information:
- The Published from date should be the date of the first published issue. If you don't know the specific month and day of the first publication, use January 1.
- The Published to date should be the date of the last published issue. If you don't know the specific month and day of the last publication, use December 31.
- If a title is currently published, leave the "published to" date blank.
- All dates should be formatted like YYYY-MM-DD. There is a date widget available that will automatically create dates in this format. Dates can also be entered manually.
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Title history events can be used to describe all types of changes that may occur during a title's lifespan. This includes simple title changes, as well as more complex events like splits and mergers. The goal is to create title history linkages that will bring together the entire title family.
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Title records in GOKb also include fields that can track the publisher of a title and the years that publisher was active. Currently, new publishers can only must be added to a title through an OpenRefine ingest, but we or using the title transfer action. We're hoping to include manual addition of publishers in an upcoming release.
You can however, manually set active publisher dates by editing the "Publisher from" and "Publisher to" fields on a title record.You can also add a new publisher by using the title transfer action.