date.accessioned v. date.available

[Sean Carte]

What is the difference between date.accessioned and date.available?

According to the documentation:

Once any workflow process is successfully and positively completed, the InProgressSubmission object is consumed by an "item installer", that converts the InProgressSubmission into a fully blown archived item in DSpace. The item installer:
Assigns an accession date
Adds a "date.available" value to the Dublin Core metadata record of the item
Adds an issue date if none already present

And the metadata descriptions are as follows:

date accessioned¹ Date DSpace takes possession of item.
date available¹ Date or date range item became available to the public.

But on the items I've checked, the date.accessioned and date.available are identical. Even in items where the provenance shows three days between submission and availability.

I would have expected date.accessioned to be closer to the submission date. But I suppose there's the date.submitted for that, though that doesn't seem to be auto-populated.

date

submitted

Recommend for theses/dissertations.

Is the description.provenance field the only way to determine the time between submission and availability?

Sean

[DSpace Technical Support]

Hi Sean,

This has been a discussion for some time. See this older thread: https://groups.google.com/g/dspace-tech/c/k7qCSJVhRrU

There's also a ticket that describes the behavior in DSpace 7 here: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues/6583

And, some recent work to fix the issue here: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/9103  (This is under consideration for 8.0).

To summarize: the "availability" time is no longer in metadata (in the new Embargo system, which is required in 7.x). Embargo related info is now only stored on the access policies (Edit Item -> Status -> Authorizations). More discussion also in this ticket: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues/9071

Tim

[Sean Carte]

Thanks for the info, Tim.

Sean

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