Working with MARC

MaRC stands for Machine Readable Cataloging, and many folks in the code4lib community find themselves working with marc records at some point. This page is meant to be a round-up of the tools for working with marc. If you want a general introduction to the standard, the wikipedia article is a good place to start.

Desktop tools

MarcEdit

Getting Sample Data

Searching and Indexing Systems

Solr

Zebra

Programming libraries

Java

Perl

PHP

Python

Ruby