.. _1.5.2:

1.5.2 collection date
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**Definition:** A significant date or date range  for the dataset, in yyyy-mm-dd format. See dateType for the significant dates desired. This attribute can be used to indicate the date range of data collection.

*Metadata fields:*

.. contents:: :local:

.. rubric:: Example DataCite XML

.. code:: xml

  <dates>
      <date dateType="Issued">2022-08-01</date>
      <date dateType="Other" dateInformation="Conceptualized">2020-01-01</date>
  </dates>

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DataCite 8. Date
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**Occurrences:** 0-n

**Input type:** Date

**Example input:** 2015-07-01T9:00+10:00/2015-07-31T17:00+10:00

(Indicates a date range of 1 July 2015 at 9:00 AEST to 31 July 2015 at 17:00 AEST)

**Controlled vocabulary source:** Use RKMS-ISO8601 format

**Notes:** The value is the date specified in the format '2022-05-31'
For a date range, it can appear as '2019-08/2020-07', with the forward slash as a time period (acting as a hyphen). 

.. _8.a:

DataCite 8.a dateType
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**Occurrences:** 1

**Input type:** Text

**Example input:** Must be "Collected"

.. _8.b:

DataCite 8.b dateInformation
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**Occurrences:** 0-1

**Input type:** Text

**Example input:** Covers time points 1 and 2