At the UM libraries, we created a special Blacklight instance for browsing our film collection (http://library.miami.edu/udvd). We used a variety of sources to pull in extra data about films:
http://www.omdbapi.com/ DBpedia https://www.themoviedb.org SolrMarc scripts to extract data from MARC Our code is in GitHub (https://github.com/UMiamiLibraries/UDVD) and may be of use for anyone wanting to get some of this kind of data. One issue we did run into was slow response time/unreliability for our DBpedia SPARQL queries. If not directly, I'm sure that you can go from UPC to another identifier that one of these data sources uses. Thanks, Jamie Little University of Miami Libraries ________________________________________ From: Code for Libraries <[email protected]> on behalf of Amy Drayer <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 30, 2015 2:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] UPC to IMDb Dear Lucas and Code4Libbers: I've been interested in this, and Linked Data might offer some possibility around accessing content similar to what IMDB has. I haven't investigated yet, but I'd love to hear if anyone has worked with the Linked Movie DB (which includes the IMDB URL): http://linkedmdb.org/ In peace, Amy M. Drayer, MLIS Senior IT Specialist, Web Developer [email protected] http://www.puzumaki.com On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Mak, Lucas Wing Kau <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Does anyone know if there is an API or website out there that can return > > IMDb ID based on a UPC? > > Thanks, > > Lucas > > > > ---------------------------------------- > > Lucas (Wing Kau) Mak > > Metadata and Catalog Librarian > > Michigan State University Libraries > > 366 W. Circle Drive > > East Lansing, MI 48824 > > email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > > Tel: (517) 884-0822 > > Fax: (517) 432-3693 > > >
