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== Working 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, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARC_standards the Wikipedia article] is a good place to start. MARC data is usually expressed either in ISO 2709 ("binary") form or MARCXML form.
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, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARC_standards the wikipedia article] is a good place to start.__TOC__
== Reference information == * [http://www.loc.gov/marc/ Library of Congress MARC Standards Pages] (covers MARC21; formerly USMARC)* [http://www.bl.uk/bibliographic/ukmarc.html British Library UKMARC Pages]* [http://archive.ifla.org/VI/3/p1996-1/sec-uni.htm IFLA UNIMARC Pages] == Desktop tools ===
* [http://people.oregonstate.edu/~reeset/marcedit/html/index.php MarcEdit]
* [http://www.nationallibrary.fi/libraries/format/usemarcon.html USEMARCON] is a multi-platform rule-based MARC record manipulation program. It is a command-line utility but there is also a GUI for it.
=== Getting Marc Indexed for Search Engines ===
==== MARC in Solr ====
* SolrMarc http://code.google.com/p/solrmarc/
* Solr http://lucene.apache.org/solr
==== MARC in Zebra ====
* Getting Started with Zebra http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/Getting_Started_with_Zebra
* Zebra http://www.indexdata.com/zebra
=== MARC Programming Libraries ===
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A feed of commit messages and release announcements from many of the projects listed above can be found at http://pipes.yahoo.com/gmcharlt/marctoolchanges.
=== Utilities and Frameworks ===
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=== Getting Sample Data ===
One common question is where to get sample MARC records for testing or playing around with. If you work at a library, chances are good that you can get some records out of your ILS (go ask your systems librarian if you don't know how to do this yourself). If you don't work in a library, you can get [http://www.archive.org/details/ol_data MARC bibliographic records from the Internet Archive].
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