Quoting Jonathan Rochkind <[email protected]>:
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.
This is something that might get better under RDA since there is a
date in the Work entity that could represent the original Work (which
we don't have in AACR or MARC). You still might need to match +- 1 or
2 years, but that would be more accurate than using the date of the
Manifestation.
kc
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
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