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Originally Posted by pg111
Hi BR,
Thanks for your reply but I was wondering if it were possible to get this Original Published Date info automatically. I guess from your answer it is not possible.
Incidentally "flwg" is short for "following".
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You could write a plugin something like the Extract ISBN plugin. It searches for something resembling an ISBN identifier at the front of a book, if found it injects it into the built-in identifiers column.
An Extract Original Pubdate plugin would search for such a date and inject the value into a designated custom column - it would need to cater for different date representations - eg "Aug. 1897", "1956", "10/5/1979" etc. Whether the last one is the 10th of May, or the 5th of October, will depend where it was published.
I wondered if 'flwg metadata' might have been an alternative for 'dc metadata' - 'Foreign Language Whatever for Geeks", as opposed to "Dublin Core"
BR