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Originally Posted by jowen1
Lack of the date of publication in the metadata is but part of a wider problem. The metadata in Calibre does not comply with any standard for bibliographical information such as Dublin Core. This makes Calibre entirely useless for professional cataloguing, e.g. in libraries. In fact, Calibre is great for creating RSS-documents and for format conversion. But as a cataloguing application it is, unfortunately, rather amateurish.
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The needs of a library versus a private collection are very different. calibre is meant to make creating private collections as painless and easy to use as possible. As for dublin core, in the coming digital information revolution, you will find that existing systems of classification and indexing (derived as they are from the needs of a time when "books" were produced in miniscule numbers, by a limited and reasonably well defined set of entities) to be wholly inadequate.