1.5.2 collection date

Required	Repeatable
No	No

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:

Example DataCite XML

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

DataCite 8. Date

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).

DataCite 8.a dateType

Occurrences: 1

Input type: Text

Example input: Must be “Collected”

DataCite 8.b dateInformation

Occurrences: 0-1

Input type: Text

Example input: Covers time points 1 and 2