Talk:MARC standards

MARC-8
Should MARC-8 be mentioned in a heading, which points to the main article MARC-8? Jodi.a.schneider (talk) 10:42, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

UNIMARC
The title UNIMARC redirects to this article, but UNIMARC is not mentioned in the article (is it an alternative name; is it one of the variations ...etc). unimarc--Mayz (talk) 15:49, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Trying to make it easier
I did a pass trying to make it easier to understand without removing the technical information. I reordered the sentences in some paragraphs to get the overall point first, did some rewording, and adding a few citations. I also added Henriette Avram to the lead since she invented it. There are still sections that are too technical. And at this point I think we really need a BIBFRAME entry, since that effort is well along.dweinberger 16:45, 22 June 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dweinberger (talk • contribs)

"Classification schedules"
The lead section mentions "Classification schedules" as one format defined by the MARC 21 family of standards. But Classification schedules is a wikilink to Library classification, which seems to be a general article about item classification including many specific schemes, such as DDC, LC, and CC. This appears to be an error, a contradiction, or possibly a difference in level between "classification" and "format encoding".

I'm not a library scientist, so all of this is over my head, but it seems to me that the lead section of this article needs a correction to this wikilink, and possibly more clarification in general, avoiding jargon a bit better. We need an expert to work on making these things clearer for non-experts. David Spector (talk) 16:41, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

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Consistency in naming
I am going to go through and change the four references of "MARC21" to "MARC 21" as I've found the space version to be used on the LOC site.

Thanks! WesT (talk) 16:25, 16 October 2019 (UTC)


 * All right, there were only two in the article. The other two were external references, both of which had both spellings, though with the non-spaced version much more popular. WesT (talk) 16:30, 16 October 2019 (UTC)

UKMARC
The UK used a format called UKMARC. I presume this is a derived format based on MARC. (I once had to develop a C++ library to read UKMARC, without any documentation for the format, but have no experience of MARC otherwise so can't speak to the differences.)

The UKMARC Exchange Record Format - The British Library

UKMARC: A format for the twenty‐first century?

The UKMARC Manual: A Cataloguer's Guide to the Bibliographic Format — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.29.42.139 (talk) 11:54, 27 January 2023 (UTC)

Need Example
We need an example of a couple of different MARC records. These should be displayed on the page and then in a table format with the meaning of each code explained. Lehasa (talk) 11:47, 17 December 2023 (UTC)