[libdb-develop] Re: On Naming A Person and The Cultural And Familiar Divide
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From: Morbus I. <mo...@di...> - 2004-01-07 19:32:11
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>OK, fair enough; it's not exactly "easy" ;-) > >Part of what you're observing, though, is not a data issue, but an >interface issue Of course they're related, but not so closely that we >can't disentangle them (perhaps?). A stop-gap measure would be support "name, given, family, lang" all at once in the database: with "name" being useful for aggregated, foreign, or unknown parses, and "given" and "family" for instances when they're known. >I know nothing about the formats of either of these. What's the >problem that makes it "impossible"? Maybe there are library sources of >MARC records you could source? I've yet to find a great selection of MARC records for movies (which source did your library pull it's MARC from?), much less movies full of foreign names (perhaps you could try poking around for CITY OF LOST CHILDREN? STACY? AUDITION? As for IMDB, there is no parsing: http://imdb.com/title/tt0368296/. >I just looked in my library catalog for the Blade Runner video, which >returned this MARC record. Seems key names are parsed (see the 700 >fields), and other names (e.g. cast) are not: Annoyingly, the client will want to include cast lists in the database <g>. -- Morbus Iff ( i put the demon back in codemonkey ) Culture: http://www.disobey.com/ and http://www.gamegrene.com/ Spidering Hacks: http://amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596005776/disobeycom icq: 2927491 / aim: akaMorbus / yahoo: morbus_iff / jabber.org: morbus |