Directory of MARC Resources

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

Resources in This Category

• Bibliographic Formats and Standards

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

• MARC 21 Standards

  http://www.marc21.ca/
  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 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 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.

• MARC.pm : Machine Readable Cataloging Perl Module

  http://marcpm.sourceforge.net/
  A free Perl module for processing MARC records.

• MarcEdit

  http://marcedit.reeset.net/
  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.

• XMLMARC

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

 

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