From majors@u.washington.edu Thu Feb 13 09:41:36 2003 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.12) with ESMTP id h1DHfah4020770 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 09:41:36 -0800 Received: from mxout3.cac.washington.edu (mxout3.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.166]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.12) with ESMTP id h1DHfXM6013820 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 09:41:33 -0800 Received: from mailhost2.u.washington.edu (mailhost2.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.2]) by mxout3.cac.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.12) with ESMTP id h1DHfWAa005247 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 09:41:32 -0800 Received: from [128.95.171.182] (D-128-95-171-182.dhcp4.washington.edu [128.95.171.182]) by mailhost2.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.12) with ESMTP id h1DHfVUM032517 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 09:41:32 -0800 Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 09:41:31 -0800 Subject: FYI- UW library searching tips for non-English-spoken videos From: Bob Majors To: listBCast LLC-list Message-ID: Mime-version: 1.0 X-Priority: 5 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=XII, Probability=12%, Report="PRIORITY_NO_NAME, SPAM_PHRASE_00_01, USER_AGENT, USER_AGENT_ENTOURAGE, __EVITE_CTYPE, __HAS_X_PRIORITY" Here are some very useful tips for getting better search results when locating non-English-spoken videorecordings using the UW libraries search engine. The tips came mostly from Cathy, a UW librarian, after I explained the problems I was having. My comments are in [square brackets]. [In trying to find non-English language videos (stored in the OUGL Media Center), I was getting lot of English-language-spoken results when entering a non-English language in the LANGUAGE field. This is because many videos, especially DVDs, have reference to non-English languages as alternative sound tracks and/or dubbing &/or subtitles, e.g., in the LANGUAGE field could be found "In English with optional soundtrack in French or Spanish."] [A very useful web page on "genre/form for videos policy":] To find feature films with German being spoken and in DVD format, I would put the following search in the keyword search with limits indicated: Keywords: dvd foreign language films german feature Limit by: location: Odegaard undergr. library and limit by: publication type: Videos The LANGUAGE (field) limit is sometimes misleading which if why we add a genre heading for all foreign language films (non fiction or fiction) with the heading: Foreign language films--language (also Foreign language videos or Foreign language television programs as appropriate). [In addition to feature films, documentary films can also be searched on.] It can be very difficult, however, to tell what country it is from. For instance, when you do the above search using "spanish" the first record listed will be: La virgen de los sicarios The only place that says that this is a Colombian movie is in machine readable only field that our system translate for display. If you click on the "Marc Display" button you will see the code "ck" (code for Columbia) in the 008 field about half way through. The subject headings give you a clue that it's Columbian, however, in this particular case. Basically, we add three kinds of headings to most moving image stuff: 1. a "top level heading" that indicates it's general nature (television programs, documentary films, feature films, etc). We double this for all fiction films with the country of the film (Feature films--Mexico) 2. we add a specific genre term if applicable (Comedy films, Nature films, etc.) 3. if in a language other than English we add the heading "Foreign language films" (or television programs or videos, as applicable) followed by the language (Foreign language films--Spanish; Foreign language films--Urdu; Foreign language films--Russian) In addition to those three basic headings we will add a heading for the author of the book, play, etc followed by "Film and video adaptations" (Austin, Jane--Film and video adaptations) So that's the basic headings you will find for films. [Note: videos have a three-day checkout period, including weekends, so to get a movie for the weekend, you'd check it out Friday. They have a good DVD collection.] .