CHANGELOG.md

@@ -4,11 +4,6 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
-## Unreleased changes
-### Added
-- Check dates in dcterms.issued field as well, not just fields that have the
-word "date" in them
-
 ## [0.4.4] - 2021-02-21
 ### Added
 - Accept dates formatted in ISO 8601 extended with combined date and time, for

README.md

@@ -109,6 +109,8 @@ This currently uses the [Python langid](https://github.com/saffsd/langid.py) lib
 - Add an option to drop invalid AGROVOC subjects?
 - Add tests for application invocation, ie `tests/test_app.py`?
 - Validate ISSNs or journal titles against CrossRef API?
+- Better ISO 8601 date parsing (currently only supports simple dates, perhaps we need to use dateutil.parser.parseiso())
+- Fix lazy date check (assumes field name has "date" but could be dcterms.issued etc!)
 
 ## License
 This work is licensed under the [GPLv3](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html).

csv_metadata_quality/app.py

@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ def run(argv):
             df[column] = df[column].apply(check.isbn)
 
         # Check: invalid date
-        match = re.match(r"^.*?(date|dcterms\.issued).*$", column)
+        match = re.match(r"^.*?date.*$", column)
         if match is not None:
             df[column] = df[column].apply(check.date, field_name=column)