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MARC

MAchine Readable Cataloging record. The format used by the majority of catalog systems.

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MARC Standards   http://www.loc.gov/marc/
Library of Congress Network Development and MARC Standards Office. Includes: general information, MARC documentation, MARC Advisory Committee, MARC SGML, records and systems, and software and utilities.



Bibliographic Formats and Standards   http://www.oclc.org/bibformats/
An exhaustive guide to the MARC standard from OCLC.



MARC Specialized Tools   http://www.loc.gov/marc/marctools.html
Provides links to MARC vendors who market specialized tools that provide enhanced usability to MARC 21 records and systems. Includes both commercial and free tools.



MARC.pm : Machine Readable Cataloging Perl Module   http://marcpm.sourceforge.net/
A free Perl module for processing MARC records.



MARC Standards   http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/marc/
Serves as the common standard for the exchange of machine-readable authority, bibliographic, classification, and holdings data in Canada. Includes news and announcements, CAN/MARC documentation, MARC Records Distribution Service (MRDS).



MARC 21 - MARC formats for the 21st century   http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/marc/040010-216-e.html
Represents the continuation of the CAN/MARC and USMARC formats in a single edition with a new name.



XML and MARC   http://elane.stanford.edu/laneauth/ALAChicago2000.html
Stanford University's Lane Medical Library details its experiment in using XML instead of MARC to organize its catalog data.



Book Cataloger's Cheat-Sheet   http://library.music.indiana.edu/tech_s/manuals/training/marc/bookcheat.html
A fast guide to cataloguing an item in MARC format. Provides a concise guide to abbreviations and field tags used.



Tag of the Month   http://www.follettsoftware.com/sub/tag_of_the_month/
A guide to most MARC cataloging tags with examples and text explaining their usage. Useful to persons needing plain descriptions of MARC fields. From Follett Software Company.



UNIMARC   http://www.ifla.org/VI/3/ubcim.htm
Universal Bibliographic Control and International MARC Core Programme (UBCIM). International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions.



MarcEdit   http://oregonstate.edu/~reeset/marcedit/html/index.php
MarcEdit is a free windows based MARC editing tool, that provides methods for converting MARC to text, Text to MARC, MARC to XML and MARC to Dublin Core.

Neigbour categories


Crosswalks
Dublin Core The Dublin Core (named for Dublin, Ohio, where the first workshop in the effort was held) has
Encoded Archival Description
FGDC The Federal Geographic Data Committee approved the Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (FGDC-STD-001-1998) in June 1998.
Meta-Object Facility Information
RDF The Resource Description Framework (RDF) integrates a variety of applications from library catalogs and world-wide directories to syndication and aggregation of news, software, and content to personal
Text Encoding Initiative
Z39.50 Information resources related to the ANSI/NISO Z39.50 standard, its implementation and use.


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