http://del.icio.us/DevineSolynDVDs
We went through and catalogued all our DVDs while in the process of re-organizing our shelves to make room for inventory rescued from a dying spa. Cybil typed them into Excel, but that didn't let us do anything but alphabetize. I wanted so much more functionality and information: year, plot summaries, director, cast, but most of all tags. I wanted to be able to filter our collection based on the genre of movie that I'm in the mood to watch.
I've actually been thinking about this for a while, trying to decide if I could justify writing a little database app, or if there was something out there already that I could use for this purpose. And there is. By using del.icio.us to bookmark the imdb.com page for each of our movies not only do I automatically have easy access to lots of data on every movie, but I also have the ability to easily tag them all with multiple genres. I can then filter them by one or more tags, and search by title and plot summary.
Next I need to go back through and add tags that I've thought of since finishing the initial input. TV is one. "(TV)" appears in most of the television show titles, but it really needs to be a tag. I'm also thinking of tagging them with directors, producing, and maybe even actors. I've also got a few "Nils" labels, things that I'm often in the mood to watch. These new labels will be "kicking" and "nakedness." I might add some others if I think of it, but violence and nudity usually cover most of my movie watching desires.
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I'm in the process of adding tags using the following format: @PersonsName. The person could be an actor, director or producer. The reason for the @ symbol is to seperate them from the genre tags.
They work really well when you get to related tags. For instance, say I clicked on the tag "Sport" (I don't know why I'd do that, but let's just say). Now I see @KeiraKnightly at the top of the related tags and I have a good reason for having clicked on "Sport."
We also enjoy watching movies in pairs based on favorite actors. The other weekend we watched The Negotiator, American Beauty was the natural follow up (except that it has walked off). These @PersonName tags could help decide what to watch based on the last movie we watched.
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