We've been linking from our DVD list to the IMDB for a few years now.
It's not in the catalog record, I just stick the title after
http://www.imdb.com/find?tt=on;mx=20;q=
i.e.,
http://www.imdb.com/find?tt=on;mx=20;q=Beer%20League
It usually works, although it often drops you in a "disambiguation
page". Mind you, we have separated out our DVDs into their own list,
since Voyager is a bit crappy for browsing DVDs:
http://www.ithacalibrary.com/research/dvds.php
Andrew
On Nov 8, 2007 2:24 PM, Jeremy Dunck <jdunck_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
--
Andrew Darby
Web Services Librarian
Ithaca College Library
http://www.ithaca.edu/library/
adarby_at_ithaca.edu
Received on Thu Nov 08 2007 - 15:19:13 EST