On Nov 8, 2007 12:43 PM, Andrew Gray <shimgray_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On 08/11/2007, Kevin Kierans <kevink_at_tnrdlib.bc.ca> wrote:
...
> Seems a pretty good idea for films, especially if you don't index
> things like rating or genre. (We're about to do a large DVD
> acquisition spree - I might well recommend we catalogue in IMDB links,
> now you mention it!)
A published cross-reference of identifier systems would be useful, and
a fairly cheap by-product of such indexing.
> IMDB is a well-established site, and is certainly the best out there
> for its subject. It's fairly comprehensive; I don't think you need to
> worry about the content you'll be linking out to.
>
If interested, all of IMDB's freely-available data is available for
download and direct use. (There is a for-pay service of IMDB as well;
that data is not freely downloadable.)
http://www.imdb.com/interfaces
And here are licensing terms for that data:
http://us.imdb.com/Licensing/
Also, here is a linking guide:
http://www.imdb.com/help/?using/
I suspect that much indexing effort could be saved by automatically
making a list of candidates for each holding and having a worker
review those choices.
Received on Thu Nov 08 2007 - 14:38:09 EST