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    Publication date

    The publication date field is a required field. By default, it is set to the date the draft was created. If your upload was previously published somewhere else (e.g. a journal article), please use the date of the first publication. Note, that in addition to the publication date, we keep track of the date a record was uploaded to the repository.

    Imprecise dates (EDTF)

    For older content you may not always know a precise publication date. In these cases you may use both imprecise dates and date ranges (using the Extended Date Time Format Level 1).

    1

    Reduced precision for year and month: 2023-09 refers to the month of September 2023.

    2

    Reduced precision for year: 2023 refers to the calendar year 2023.

    3

    Time interval: 2023-01-01/2023-09-23 refers to the time interval beginning January 1st 2023 and ending on September 23rd 2023.

    4

    Time interval imprecise: 1939/1945 refers to the time interval beginning sometime in 1939 and ending sometime in 1945.