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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 > <[log in to unmask]> 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<[log in to unmask]> 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"<[log in to unmask]> 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 >>>>>