Add "original publication date" as an item field

[tjowens]

This is a issue for editions, reprints, and translations.

For example Lev Vygotsky's book Thought and Language was originally published in Russian in 1934. It was then translated into English twice, once in 1964, and once in 1988.

If I wanted to cite the later translation CMS would like both dates. In their author date format it looks like this. (Vygotsky 1934/1988)

This would resolve these two requests.
​http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/2907/
​http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/3443

[bdarcus]

This should be addressed with the new "hierarchical" model by allowing links to an original publication, since one often needs to include other information like publisher, title (with translations in particular) and so forth. Simply adding a field isn't enough.

[erazlogo]

I agree, this is probably best handled as "reprint of" and "translation of" links in the hierarchical system. For translations, CMS requires original title as Bruce notes; for reprints, original place and publisher are sometimes cited.