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These are in 856 fields, and I doubt there was any automated process to add them, which means catalogers manually added them. Roy On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Jonathan Rochkind <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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 >>>>>> >