IMDB is just Amazon, I believe, I wonder if there's anything in the Amazon
Services API that might help bridge?
just a thought...
- adam
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 05:05:44PM -0500, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
> Andrew Gray wrote:
> >On 08/11/2007, Jonathan Rochkind <rochkind_at_jhu.edu> wrote:
> >
> >The problem is that we're looking at DVDs and videos here - things
> >that don't tend to have standardised numbers. A link between IMDB id
> >(which is probably a stable number) and reference number would be
> >marvellous, but do those reference numbers exist?
> >
> >(This is an honest question. I don't deal with LCCNs or OCLC numbers,
> >generally speaking - does audiovisual material often get one of
> >these?)
> >
> Any cataloging record that you downloaded from OCLC has a oclcnum. Any
> cataloging record that was created by the Library of Congress has an
> lccn (Library of Congress Control Number).
>
> Many/most (but not all) of the cataloging records here in the US in
> many/most (but not all) of our library's catalogs have one or both of
> these. Except I'm not sure if LC does much video cataloging, so video
> records might not generally have LCCNs. For that matter, I can't say for
> sure that most US video records will have oclc accession numbers either,
> but it's worth investigating, and I suspect a fair number do. As far as
> outside of the US where people don't neccesarily use OCLC... I assume
> most European countries use some kind of cooperative cataloging, and
> their records have some kind of cooperative cataloging identifier
> number? But I really don't know.
>
> Jonathan
>
>
> >--
> >- Andrew Gray
> > andrew.gray_at_dunelm.org.uk
> >
> >
>
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> The Sheridan Libraries
> Johns Hopkins University
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Received on Thu Nov 08 2007 - 17:30:14 EST