Re: IMDB to MARC?

From: Charles Ledvina <blp1569_at_nyob>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:23:26 -0600
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Hello:

As creator of the Amazon-to-MARC converter I thought it would be apropos 
to do a project along the same lines for IMDB.   The prototype is 
located at http://amazon.libcat.org/cgi-bin/imdb2marc.pl.

I am using Brian Fritz's API (http://imdbapi.com/) to populate the fields.

Here is a MARC (or should I say MARX) example of the motion picture 
"Horse Feathers" :

http://amazon.libcat.org/cgi-bin/imdb2marc.pl?kw=tt0023027

The only problem is that there is no material type or publisher, so, the 
260 and the 300 are a bit suspect.  As with the Amazon-to-Marc product 
you can also verify names.

Enjoy,
Charles


On 1/17/2011 7:11 PM, Karen Coyle wrote:
> I posted the link to the Amazon-to-MARC converter and got back the 
> question: has anyone done this for IMDB? It appears that it's hard to 
> find copy for DVDs in the usual library sources.
>
> I suppose a pre-answer follow-up would be: if it hasn't been done, is 
> anyone interested in taking it on?
>
> Thanks,
> kc
>


-- 
Charles Ledvina
Cataloging Assistant
Outagamie Waupaca Library System
infosoup.org
Received on Thu Jan 20 2011 - 15:24:12 EST