A.2. MARC Records: The ATLAS Project from ATLA-CERTR at Emory University
MARC records for electronic card catalogues in libraries have been in use for some two to three decades. They have become most prevalent in the last 15 years, as the increased power and affordability of digital equipment has become more available to libraries—one of the most invaluable and almost utterly under funded knowledge stores of humankind.
The MARC style is very simple, but remarkably powerful for data representation and categorization. This is accomplished with a carefully counted syntax in which the entire beginning of each record is a series of eight-digit sequences identifying each part of the record (title, author, etc.), how many characters each contains, and ...
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