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Quoting Jonathan Rochkind <[log in to unmask]>: > 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"<[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 > -- Karen Coyle [log in to unmask] http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet