"ACQUISITION DATE" - Humanities
- Field label
- ACQUISITION DATE
- Field mnemonic
- AQD
- Field name
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- Acquisition Date
- Date d'acquisition ou date d'enregistrement
- Field definition
- This field indicates the date that the object was acquired or registered.
- Heading
- REGISTRATION FIELDS
- Comments
- NOTE: This field has NOT been updated as part of the May 2010 Data Dictionary update. Priority for the Data Dictionary update was given to those fields that are required or strongly recommended for Artefacts Canada contribution. The Entry Rules for this field will be updated at a later date.
- Entry rules
- Enter a numeric date. Always record the date in YYYYMMDD order (always give all four digits of the year). Dates can be qualified by adding one of the following attributes: circa (C), prior to (P), later than (L), decade ('s), between (-) and uncertain (?). Attributes should be separated from the date with a space, except for decade ('s) and between (-). Dates can also be described as "unknown".
- Cataloguers rules
- See also, Purchase Date (PD).
- Data type
- alpha-numeric string
- Examples
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- 1950
- 1950 c
- c 1950
- 1940's
- 1935-08-29
- 19350829
- 1928-2000
- unknown
- 19561101
- 19561101 AN
- 19560000 ?
- 19561101 PO
- 20000101 C
- inconnu
- Discipline
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- Administration
- Source
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- Ethnology Task Force
- Fine and Decorative Arts Task Force
- Field label (French)
- DATE D'ACQUISITION
- Field mnemonic (French)
- DAQ
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