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eevan · 09-20-2019, 07:22 AM

I know there's been a lot discussion regarding published date meatadata.

But I haven't found an answer to this.
I author my EPUB books in Sigil. Here is an extract of the date metadata from opf file inside the EPUB:

Code:

<dc:date opf:event="publication">1995-03-23</dc:date>
<dc:date opf:event="creation">1967-05-08</dc:date>

So, I have created two date fileds that have the following meaning:
publication: date of the publication of this edition (translation)
creation: date of the publication of original book.

When I import this book in Calibre, pubdate field gets the value from <dc:date opf:event="creation"> (May 1967).

Is there a way to control which date gets mapped to pubdate?
Or a way to import this "creation" date into some user defined field (column).

Otherwise one has to manually change the pubdate to other value.

09-20-2019, 07:22 AM	#1
eevan Junior Member Posts: 6 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2013 Location: Belgrade, Serbia Device: Kobo Glo	dc:date metadata importing from EPUB I know there's been a lot discussion regarding published date meatadata. But I haven't found an answer to this. I author my EPUB books in Sigil. Here is an extract of the date metadata from opf file inside the EPUB: Code: <dc:date opf:event="publication">1995-03-23</dc:date> <dc:date opf:event="creation">1967-05-08</dc:date> So, I have created two date fileds that have the following meaning: publication: date of the publication of this edition (translation) creation: date of the publication of original book. When I import this book in Calibre, pubdate field gets the value from <dc:date opf:event="creation"> (May 1967). Is there a way to control which date gets mapped to pubdate? Or a way to import this "creation" date into some user defined field (column). Otherwise one has to manually change the pubdate to other value.