Re: [libdb-develop] Re: On Naming A Person and The Cultural And Familiar Divide

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Hi folks:

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:25:20PM -0500, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
> 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:
> 
> 001    15494415
> 005    19971103080721.0
> 007    vfucbaho-
> 008    870406s1986    cau122 g          vleng dcgmIa
> 040    IJC|cIJC|dDLM
> 049    MIBN
> 090    PN1997|b.B592 1986
> 245 00 Blade runner|h[videorecording] /|cThe Ladd Company
> 260    Los Angeles :|bEmbassy Home Entertainment,|cc1986
> 300    1 videocassette (122 min.) :|bsd., col. ;|c1/2 in
> 500    VHS format
> 500    "VHS hi-fi stereo 1380."
> 500    "Mono compatible". --- container
> 500    Based on the novel Do androids dream of electric sheep? by
>        Philip K. Dick
> 500    Winner of: Los Angeles film critic's award, RIAA and ITA
>        video awards, 3 British academy awards, 2 academy award
>        nominations
> 500    Videocassette release of the 1982 motion picture by The
>        Ladd Company, originally rated R
> 500    Miami University's MCIS video collection
> 508    Producer, Michael Deeley : director, Ridley Scott ;
>        screenplay, Hampton Fancher and David Peoples ; visual
>        effects, Douglas Trumbull ; original music, Vangelis ;
>        photography, Jordan Cronenweth ; editor, Terry Rawlings
> 511 1  Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James
>        Olmos, Daryl Hannah
> 520    A futuristic tale set in the Los Angeles of 2020
> 520    Directed by Ridley Scott with Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer,
>        Sean Young and Edward James Olmos. Harrison Ford is at his
>        suspenseful best as he takes you on a frightening,
>        futuristic detective mission to track down and eliminate
>        four renegade "replicants", genetically engineered humans
>        of superior strength and intelligence. Riveting visual
>        effects reflect the bleakness of a world winding down.
>        It's like nothing you've ever seen. (Tamarelle) 1982 R
> 650  0 Science fiction films
> 650  0 Feature films
> 700 1  Ford, Harrison,|d1942-
> 700 1  Hauer, Rutger,|d1944-
> 700 1  Dick, Philip K.|tDo androids dream of electric sheep?
>        |h[videorecording]
> 700 10 Scott, Ridley
> 710 2  Ladd Company
> 710 2  Embassy Home Entertainment (Firm)
> 830  0 MCIS video collection ;|vFS-9
> 947    upd  df

Which means that if you are looking for films which Terry Rawlings is 
credited in you better hope you have a key word index on the 508 :)

Whereas in IMDB you have a much nicer granularity:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0712625/

Probably one of the main reasons why Terry Rawlings is not in a 700 is
because someone was going to have to look up an authority record for them
and couldn't be bothered! I think that library cataloging standards are often 
counter productive, and that using Amazon and IMDB as models eventhough all we 
have is their interface, and we will have to guess at the underlying framework,
a reverse engineering process of sorts.

So what was the question again? :)

//Ed

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