Any idea how those got there, Roy? Manually added by Catalogers? (To
what MARC field, just an 856?). Added by OCLC processing somehow?
On 4/27/2011 12:14 PM, Roy Tennant wrote:
For what it's worth, I see over 7,000 links to IMDB from WorldCat records.
Roy
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 9:01 AM, marijane white
<[email protected]> wrote:
To confirm some of what Jonathan said...
As the maintainer of a collection nearing 20,000 DVDs, I can confirm that
DVDs rarely have ISBNs. When they do, it's usually educational,
instructional, or musical content. I don't think I've seen a feature film
DVD with an ISBN.
IMDB does have UPC data for some DVDs. IIRC, searching for a UPC on IMDB
takes you to a page listing the DVDs for a particular movie, rather than the
main title page.
The only DVDs I've seen that did not have a UPC were pre-release screeners,
which I would be surprised to find in most library collections.
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Jonathan Rochkind<[email protected]> wrote:
But you're just going to have to title search on freebase, right? (Same
functionality may be avail on IMBD directly without going through freebase,
but more importantly...)
There are frequently movies sharing the same title with an entirely
different movie. Maybe title/year search instead?
But movies wind up with several 'publication dates' (date of release in
theaters, date of release for a DVD or videotape, different dates of release
for different manifestations. Who knows what date you've got in your
'source' record you're trying to link to, and if that's going to match the
date(s) in the freebase record.
I'm not sure of a great way to do this. Metadata matching is a bitch.
A FEW of our library bibliographic records actually have a UPC/EAN in them
for videos. (ISBN is actually a subset of UPC/EAN, at least since ISBN-13.
But I think DVDs and videocassettes sold aren't going to have an ISBN
usually, but usually will have a UPC/EAN).
If you've got one of those, you might be able to search on that in
freebase? (even if you can't in IMBD directly? here's where freebase might
rule). Relies on freebase having that UPC/EAN in it's database, for the
particular manifestation you've got a record for. Not sure the prospects
of that. And few (but some) of our records have UPC/EAN anyway.
In general here though, this is another reminder that in the present
environment, unambiguous identifiers RULE. Like ISBN, UPC/EAN, etc. One of
the most valuable things catalogers can add to records. I really wish it
would become common practice to add a UPC/EAN to all dvd/video records where
the item-in-hand has one on it. Even if that means sacrificing some other
things, I know cataloger time is a precious resource. But UPC/EAN should be
considered very very high value, it could enable all sorts of value-added
services and linking to external databases.
Jonathan
On 4/27/2011 11:09 AM, Sean Hannan wrote:
If I were doing this, I'd use the Freebase (freebase.com) API and write a
little app that returns the IMDB title stem (ex: tt0460791) for each of
the
films you're trying to match up.
-Sean
On 4/27/11 10:56 AM, "R. Levi"<[email protected]> wrote:
I would like to add a link to IMDB for the feature films that we have in
our
catalog. IMDB doesn't appear to have ISBNs. Is there a way to link the
MARC
record with the IMDB record without manually searching IMDB to find each
movie? Thanks, Rich
