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+ <title>Metadata proposal for movies on the Internet Archive</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Metadata_proposal_for_movies_on_the_Internet_Archive.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Metadata_proposal_for_movies_on_the_Internet_Archive.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2017 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>It would be easier to locate the movie you want to watch in
+<a href="https://www.archive.org/">the Internet Archive</a>, if the
+metadata about each movie was more complete and accurate. In the
+archiving community, a well known saying state that good metadata is a
+love letter to the future. The metadata in the Internet Archive could
+use a face lift for the future to love us back. Here is a proposal
+for a small improvement that would make the metadata more useful
+today. I've been unable to find any document describing the various
+standard fields available when uploading videos to the archive, so
+this proposal is based on my best quess and searching through several
+of the existing movies.</p>
+
+<p>I have a few use cases in mind. First of all, I would like to be
+able to count the number of distinct movies in the Internet Archive,
+without duplicates. I would further like to identify the IMDB title
+ID of the movies in the Internet Archive, to be able to look up a IMDB
+title ID and know if I can fetch the video from there and share it
+with my friends.</p>
+
+<p>Second, I would like the Butter data provider for The Internet
+archive
+(<a href="https://github.com/butterproviders/butter-provider-archive">available
+from github</a>), to list as many of the good movies as possible. The
+plugin currently do a search in the archive with the following
+parameters:</p>
+
+<p><pre>
+collection:moviesandfilms
+AND NOT collection:movie_trailers
+AND -mediatype:collection
+AND format:"Archive BitTorrent"
+AND year
+</pre></p>
+
+<p>Most of the cool movies that fail to show up in Butter do so
+because the 'year' field is missing. The 'year' field is populated by
+the year part from the 'date' field, and should be when the movie was
+released (date or year). Two such examples are
+<a href="https://archive.org/details/SidneyOlcottsBen-hur1905">Ben Hur
+from 1905</a> and
+<a href="https://archive.org/details/Caminandes2GranDillama">Caminandes
+2: Gran Dillama from 2013</a>, where the year metadata field is
+missing.</p>
+
+So, my proposal is simply, for every movie in The Internet Archive
+where an IMDB title ID exist, please fill in these metadata fields
+(note, they can be updated also long after the video was uploaded, but
+as far as I can tell, only by the uploader):
+
+<dl>
+
+<dt>mediatype</dt>
+<dd>Should be 'movie' for movies.</dd>
+
+<dt>collection</dt>
+<dd>Should contain 'moviesandfilms'.</dd>
+
+<dt>title</dt>
+<dd>The title of the movie, without the publication year.</dd>
+
+<dt>date</dt>
+<dd>The data or year the movie was released. This make the movie show
+up in Butter, as well as make it possible to know the age of the
+movie and is useful to figure out copyright status.</dd>
+
+<dt>director</dt>
+<dd>The director of the movie. This make it easier to know if the
+correct movie is found in movie databases.</dd>
+
+<dt>publisher</dt>
+<dd>The production company making the movie. Also useful for
+identifying the correct movie.</dd>
+
+<dt>links</dt>
+
+<dd>Add a link to the IMDB title page, for example like this: &lt;a
+href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028496/"&gt;Movie in
+IMDB&lt;/a&gt;. This make it easier to find duplicates and allow for
+counting of number of unique movies in the Archive. Other external
+references, like to TMDB, could be added like this too.</dd>
+
+</dl>
+
+<p>I did consider proposing a Custom field for the IMDB title ID (for
+example 'imdb_title_url', 'imdb_code' or simply 'imdb', but suspect it
+will be easier to simply place it in the links free text field.</p>
+
+<p>I created
+<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/public-domain-free-imdb">a
+list of IMDB title IDs for several thousand movies in the Internet
+Archive</a>, but I also got a list of several thousand movies without
+such IMDB title ID (and quite a few duplicates). It would be great if
+this data set could be integrated into the Internet Archive metadata
+to be available for everyone in the future, but with the current
+policy of leaving metadata editing to the uploaders, it will take a
+while before this happen. If you have uploaded movies into the
+Internet Archive, you can help. Please consider following my proposal
+above for your movies, to ensure that movie is properly
+counted. :)</p>
+
+<p>The list is mostly generated using wikidata, which based on
+Wikipedia articles make it possible to link between IMDB and movies in
+the Internet Archive. But there are lots of movies without a
+Wikipedia article, and some movies where only a collection page exist
+(like for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caminandes">the
+Caminandes example above</a>, where there are three movies but only
+one Wikidata entry).</p>
+</description>
+ </item>
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