DATE OF BIRTH - Humanities
- Field label
- DATE OF BIRTH
- Field mnemonic
- DOB
- Field name
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- Date of Birth of Computer Record
- Date de l'enregistrement
- Field definition
- This field contains the date the document was created in the museum's collections management system.
- Heading
- SYSTEM 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
- The Date of Birth is entered automatically by the computer system for each document as it is created, and should not be directly modified by the user. The date format is YYYYMMDD.
- Cataloguers rules
- See also, Date of Change (DOC).
- Data type
- integer
- Examples
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- 19820103
- 19831104
- 20000430
- 19820103
- 20000204
- Source
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- CHIN
- Field label (French)
- DATE DE L'ENREGISTREMENT
- Field mnemonic (French)
- DOB
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