Oxford University Press Text Capture Instructions

 

ISO 8601 date format

Use ISO 8601 dates in OUP XML captures.

Valid ISO 8601 date formats are YYYY, YYYY-MM, or YYYY-MM-DD. Valid ISO Dates always include a year. Do not include month, day or month-day values without a year value.

Examples:

  • YYYY for example 1984
  • YYYY-MM for example 1984-02
  • YYYY-MM-DD for example 1984-02-01

Sub-topics

  1. BC/BCE dates

    Capture BC (or BCE) and AD (or CE) dates in ISO 8601 date format.

  2. Calendar Dates

    Capture dates which recur annually in a truncated ISO format 'MM-DD'.

Release ID:
20261202
ID:
OUP_Bibliographic_Reference_TCI_topic_9
Author:
dunnm
Last changed:
Mon, 11 Mar 2013
Modified by:
pinegerr
Revision#:
434