Full Author Date Not Showing on Individual Title Listings

[Tony Bandy]

Running Evergreen 2.7.2 on a hosted instance, we are noticing that when looking for books by a author, that in the RESULTS list, the entire author's date of birth is shown (as in this example):

Sandford, John, 1944 February 23-

However, when clicking on an INDIVIDUAL title from the returned list, the specific books will return the author's date of birth as such:

Sandford, John, 1944-

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After posting out to the Evergreen mailing lists, folks mentioned that the authors.tt2 is performing normalization on the data such as:

IF subfield.textContent.match('^\s*\d{4}');
  birthdate = subfield.textContent.replace('^\s*(\d{4}).*$', '$1'); END;

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Might be nice if code could be altered so that the full author display is shown for individual titles.

--Tony

Tony Bandy
OHIONET
1500 West Lane Ave.
Columbus, OH 43221-3975

[Garry Collum (gcollum)]

It looks like the code in authors.tt2 pulls out the data from subfield d so that variables are created for birthdate and deathdate to match the person schema at schema.org. It really just pulls the birth year and death year. How important is it to separate this data to match schema.org? It would be a simple thing to display the entire data string.