Difference between revisions of "MAchine-Readable Cataloging (MARC)"

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"The MARC formats are standards for the representation and communication of bibliographic and related information in machine-readable form".<ref>[http://www.loc.gov/marc/ MARC Standards] homepage by the Library of Congress (LoC)</ref>
"The MARC formats are standards for the representation and communication of bibliographic and related information in machine-readable form".<ref>[http://www.loc.gov/marc/ MARC Standards] homepage by the Library of Congress (LoC)</ref>


The formats have been developed in the 1960er years and are mainly used to exchange catalog records among libraries and/or library consortias.  
The formats have been developed in the 1960er years and are mainly used to exchange catalog records among libraries and/or library consortias. A quite comprehensive introduction to the formats can be found in Wikipedia<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARC_standards Wikipedia article for MARC]</ref>


== Tools ==
== Tools ==
* http://oregonstate.edu/~reeset/marcedit/html/index.php - MARC edit
* http://oregonstate.edu/~reeset/marcedit/html/index.php - MARC edit
* http://www.indexdata.com/yaz/doc/yaz-marcdump.html - to read MARC records and display them in various formats
* http://www.indexdata.com/yaz/doc/yaz-marcdump.html - to read MARC records and display them in various formats


== References ==
== References ==
<references/>
<references/>
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARC_standards

Revision as of 18:34, 16 July 2009

"The MARC formats are standards for the representation and communication of bibliographic and related information in machine-readable form".[1]

The formats have been developed in the 1960er years and are mainly used to exchange catalog records among libraries and/or library consortias. A quite comprehensive introduction to the formats can be found in Wikipedia[2]

Tools[edit]

References[edit]

  1. MARC Standards homepage by the Library of Congress (LoC)
  2. Wikipedia article for MARC