I have to say, I'd expect Amazon to have more relevant/publisher/edition specific records than anything from IMDb. Does this site cover the multiplicity of Amazons (i.e. Amazom.co.uk, Amazon.de) etc., do you know, or just Amazon.com?
Best wishes Martin Kelleher Electronic Resources/Bibliographic Services Librarian University of Liverpool -----Original Message----- From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Galen Charlton Sent: 17 January 2011 20:03 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Amazon to MARC Hi, On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 2:46 PM, J. McRee Elrod <[email protected]> wrote: > I would be more interested in a system which harvests MARC records > from IMDb. There is a much larger oercentage of records for motion > pictures acquired as DVDs by libraies lacking MARC records, to be found > on IMDb, than library books lacking MARC records to be found on Amazon. Though a great many commercially available DVDs can be found on Amazon, no? That said, I agree that a similar service built on IMDb would be very useful. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton [email protected]
