Bug 23965 - Use an external service to provide DVD cover images
Summary: Use an external service to provide DVD cover images
Status: NEW
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Product: Koha
Classification: Unclassified
Component: OPAC (show other bugs)
Version: Main
Hardware: All All
: P5 - low enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Bugs List
QA Contact: Testopia
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Reported: 2019-11-04 15:52 UTC by Christopher Brannon
Modified: 2022-07-24 23:14 UTC (History)
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Description Christopher Brannon 2019-11-04 15:52:20 UTC
Wondering if the same resources that Plex uses could be used for Koha in DVD covers.

TV shows use TVDB mainly and Freebase or Movieposters.DB for Movies
Comment 1 Owen Leonard 2019-11-04 16:32:36 UTC
When considering the feasibility of getting cover images from external sources there are I think two major factors to consider:

1. The availability and licensing of the data.

What do we know about access to the data on TVDB, Freebase, and Movieposter.DB? Are there open APIs? Do their terms of use permit direct access by third-party software? Are there limitations to the amount of data which can be requested?

2. The means of connecting the data in Koha to the data on the service.

Even if you have access to cover image data, the unique identifier used by the external service to identify the title is probably not going to match any unique identifier which is stored in Koha. Would DVD records need to be manually updated to include the ID of the resource in the external service?
Comment 2 Christopher Brannon 2019-11-04 18:30:09 UTC
Perhaps the Mana Knowledge Base could share images that people have uploaded.
Comment 3 Katrin Fischer 2019-11-04 22:22:14 UTC
(In reply to Christopher Brannon from comment #2)
> Perhaps the Mana Knowledge Base could share images that people have uploaded.

There might be copyright issues in some countries (I think Germany being one of them). But that just means we should make it easy to turn it on/off, to be on the safe side.